Johnny Was
- Original title
- Johnny Was
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Vinnie Jones
- Patrick Bergin
- Laurence Kinlan
- Eriq La Salle
- Lennox Lewis
- Samantha Mumba
- Mark Asante
- Roger Daltrey
- Sam Sarpong
- Charles Porter
- Wilson Jermaine Heredia
- Colin Stewart
- John Fashanu
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United Kingdom-Ireland;
- Genre
- Action. Thriller. Drama | Crime
- Synopsis
- Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.
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