Layer Cake

2004
15
1h 45m

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7.3/10

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A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

200K

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POPULARITY

2,338

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 9 nominations total

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Layer Cake

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Layer Cake Scene: Lovely Isn't She?

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Layer Cake Scene: Lovely Isn't She?

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Layer Cake Scene: It's A Business

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Layer Cake Scene: I Need A Favor

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Layer Cake Scene: This Is Tammy

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Layer Cake Scene: Knock On The Door

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Trivia
It was Daniel Craig's performance in this movie that caused producer Barbara Broccoli to take notice and think he might be a good fit for James Bond.

Goofs
Slavo and Dragan are supposed to be Serbians but they speak Romanian.

Quotes
Eddie Temple: You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.

Crazy credits
The film title appears on a door that XXXX walks through.

Connections
Featured in Becoming Bond (2006)

Soundtracks
Hayling
Written by Daniel Ormondroyd, Jon Nowell, Hafdís Huld and Jon Collyer
Published by Copyright Control
Performed by FC Kahuna
Courtesy of Skint Records

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Featured review

6/10

For people who think "MORE" is more.

For people who think convoluted is clever. For people who think ensembling an assortment of gangster stereotypes is expansive.

Still, it mostly works. The acting is fine. Everything to do with "The Serbs" is ridiculous. One minute "The Serbs" are blood-thirsty, omniscient masters of crime. The next minute they are shoulder-shruggers who can't find anyone in London and fall for the oldest trick in the book.

But, given that the acting & style are the two best attributes of the film, can you imagine how bad the book must be?