Shooters (film)

Infobox Film
name = Shooters


caption = DVD cover
director = Colin Teague
Glenn Durfort
producer = Margery Bone
Will Bone
writer = Andrew Howard
Louis Dempsey
Gary Young
narrator = Louis Dempsey
starring = Adrian Dunbar
Andrew Howard
Louis Dempsey
Gerard Butler
Melanie Lynskey
music = Kemal Ultanur
cinematography = Tom Erisman
editing = Kevin Whelan
distributor = Media Cooperation One (MC-One)
released = flagicon|USA February 21, 2000
flagicon|UK January 25, 2002
flagicon|Netherlands September 28, 2002 (Nederlands Film Festival)
runtime = 95 min.
country = United Kingdom
United States
Netherlands
language = English
amg_id = 1:288101
imdb_id = 0278035

"Shooters" is a 2002 British crime drama film from directors Colin Teague and Glenn Durfort, and writers Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey and Gary Young. It was filmed in London in 1999 and released theatrically in the UK on January 25, 2002. In addition to co-writing the screenplay, Howard and Dempsey also play the film's two leading roles.

Plot Synopsis

After six years behind bars, Gilly (Dempsey) wants to settle down and live a quiet life. But it is not to be. He is released from prison only to find that his crime partner J (Howard) has invested all their money in a massive array of submachine guns, forcing Gilly back into a life of crime. Their last deal goes down in seven days, but the way things are going, Gilly's not sure he can hold out that long.

Cast

Connections

Movie Connections

*The Jason Hughes character Charlie Franklin bears remarkable resemblance to the True Romance character Drexl, a ruthless pimp and drug dealer played by Gary Oldman. Similar to Drexl, Charlie sports long scraggly dreadlocks and even has the same crescent-shaped scar under his right eye.
*The scene in which J and Gil confront Charlie Franklin is a direct rip-off of the scene in True Romance in which Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) confronts Drexl (Gary Oldman). Both sequences involve the protagonists being offered Chinese takeout and declining, then infilcting irreversible damage on the drug dealer's genitals.

Music Connections

*American rapper 50 Cent sampled dialogue from the film between the characters J and Eddie for the opening track of his 2007 album Curtis. [http://imdb.com/title/tt0278035/quotes]

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