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Film Four · Drama · 19 Jan 2012 · by: Film 4

Malcolm Venville's chamber revenge drama features a screenplay from the writers of Sexy Beast, Louis Mellis and David Scinto, and a stellar cast that includes Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McShane and Tom Wilkinson. When hard man Colin Diamond (Winstone) discovers that his wife Liz (Whalley) is having an affair with a young waiter and wants to end their marriage, he falls to pieces. This is more than his friends (Hurt, McShane, Wilkinson and Stephen Dillane) can bear to see and they rally to support him and come up with a plan to put things right again. Unfortunately for 'Loverboy' (Melvil Poupaud), the waiter, as well as being splendidly foul-mouthed, Colin's friends are also terrifyingly, clinically brutal psychopathic gangsters. Their solution is to kidnap Liz's new love and encourage Colin to exact bloody revenge. With most of the action taking place in just one room, the stage is set for a character study master-class, and an uncertain end for Loverboy.

Saturday 21th January, 23.00, Film 4