Layer Cake (R)

Quicklook Rating★★★½

synopsis

Just as a successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, eyes an early retirement from the business, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings.

details

Suspense/Thriller, Action/Adventure
1 hr. 44 min.
Opened May 13th, 2005

MovieGoer Review

Layer Cake blurs the line between Anglophiles and cinephiles, with each group getting its fix. With an innovative and equally ingenuous brand of smarts, this twisty and affluent thriller may prove too enticing for even summer-blockbuster de... MORE

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synopsis

Just as a successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, eyes an early retirement from the business, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings.

details

Suspense/Thriller, Action/Adventure
1 hr. 44 min.
Opened May 13th, 2005

MovieGoer Review

Layer Cake blurs the line between Anglophiles and cinephiles, with each group getting its fix. With an innovative and equally ingenuous brand of smarts, this twisty and affluent thriller may prove too enticing for even summer-blockbuster de... MORE