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Spun (2002)

Spun is a 2002 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Jonas Γ…kerlund from an original screenplay by William De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, based on three days of De Los Santos's life in the Eugene, Oregon, drug subculture. The film stars Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Britanny Murphy and Mickey Rourke. Γ…kerlund made his debut as a feature film director with Spun, having already become known for his work in music videos. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spun A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283003/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: Second film of the week with John Leguizamo, where he's not the main actor as I thought, but in any case, he has an important role and a lot of screen time. The film begins with Ross (Jason Schwartzman) knocking on Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo) doo...

Narc (2002)

Narc is a 2002 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narc_(film) An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know? source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272207/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** ...

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two immigrants in London staring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe and Audrey Tautou as Senay Gelik. It was produced by BBC Films and Celador Films. It's Audrey Tautou's first English-speaking role.The first film from Celador, the company behind TV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998). Steven Knight, co-creator of the hit show, also wrote the script for Dirty Pretty Things. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Pretty_Things_(film) An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: After having a discussion at the dinner table about how welcoming England is to emigrants, we ended up our evening watching this movie... about emigrants and their lives in England. So, Freddy, now you still think that they are truly welcome in there? F: Krasnay...

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