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Synopsis: A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal Serbian gang and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. Bu
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Matthew Vaughn
Production: Sony Classics
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2004
105 min
$2,277,736
Website
3,417 Views


Keep Mr. McGuire posted.

I've also got a little business

more in your usual line.

Gene will fill you in.

Everything was to your satisfaction?

- F***ing excellent, Angelo.

- Thank you.

Details, details.

Things to do, things to get done.

Don't bother me with details.

Just tell me when they're done.

- Who said that, son?

- Winston Churchill?

Close. No, I said it.

James Lionel Price. Good boy.

I'll see you at the yard tomorrow.

Say, four.

Tell you about that bit of business. I've

set up a meet for five with the Duke.

- What's with him?

- He's just had one of these.

These are super Es.

We'll make millions!

I don't care. This is my boatyard.

I want those pills and that f***ing idiot

out of here now.

- I can't afford to get nicked.

- Paul. Calm down, mate.

I've got Gene coming down

with a buyer. You'll be in your whack.

Here, chill. Have a pill.

Gene, why are we doing business

with the Duke?

Yeah, why are we

dealing with this joker?

He's a f***ing maniac, a relic, a

throwback, belongs to the Dark Ages.

Will you just shut the f*** up?

We're dealing with him because

he has one million Ecstasy pills...

...of very high levels

of MDMA, okay?

One million?

Gene, that is a lot of pills.

What's the tax on that?

Jimmy wants 50 percent netto.

Love a bit of cloak-and-dagger,

this lot.

Oh, yeah. Driving a bright yellow

Range Rover. Very subtle.

Calm down. You'll feel better

once you've got your money.

But how much can you spend

in Parkhurst or the Scrubs, Gene?

Come on.

Oh, don't go getting Duke at it. Jimmy

doesn't want him f***ed about, okay?

Who? Me?

Don't you f***ing talk to me

like I'm some kind of mug.

Duke, don't take this personally.

It's business.

You wanna know

how much they're worth.

Yes, f***ing, please!

Just because you pay a fiver a pop

down the local cattle market...

...don't, for f***'s sake,

think these pills are worth millions.

They're not.

We've gotta find a buyer.

They've gotta split them into parcels.

They've gotta find these people.

You'd give a f***ing aspirin

a headache, pal.

Then you've got currency fluctuations,

police activity, adverse publicity.

Who has got the readies lying around

to pay for a million Es?

- This is f***ing bollocks!

- Slasher, shut the f*** up!

- Duke, we all want a good deal.

- Mate, mate, mate.

Mate, look, that parcel of pills

has got to be worth 5 million easy.

- Five pound each, yeah!

- You are f***ing joking.

It doesn't work like that!

Don't keep f***ing

saying that to me!

I've got some samples.

I'll stay in touch through Gene, okay?

You wouldn't be so f***ing flash

if you didn't have him behind you.

Yeah, well, he f***ing has, ain't he?

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