A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, 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. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ‘savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Layer Cake (2004)
  • Rating: (62,043 votes)
  • Runtime:105 minutes
  • Director: Matthew Vaughn
  • Country:UK
  • Actors:
    XXXX
    Daniel Craig
    Clarkie
    Tom Hardy
    Duke
    Jamie Foreman
    Slasher
    Sally Hawkins
    Gazza
    Burn Gorman
    Nobby
    Brinley Green
    Morty
    George Harris
    Terry
    Tamer Hassan
    Gene
    Colm Meaney
    Slavo
    Marcel Iures
  • Genres:Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Adam Bohling
    producer  
    Stephen Marks
    executive producer  
    David Reid
    producer  
    Matthew Vaughn
    producer  
  • Plots: A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, 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. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.. Written by Anonymous
Layer Cake
  • User's comment:Layers of Goodness by johnnyboyz (j_l_h_m@yahoo.co.uk)

    I was really looking forward to seeing Matthew Vaughn's turn at directing a film and what better genre to see him make his debut in than the British gangster genre especially after his roles in the fabulous 'Lock,Stock...' and 'Snatch' even though they were Guy Ritchie's.

    Fans of those two movies may notice a few references in this one, most notably two of the actors used and some of the dialogue sounded fairly similar to a few lines out of 'Lock, Stock' but they didn't detract from the films quality. For a while, I thought I was watching 'Snatch' from a few years ago as the pace and the amount of characters that were piling up in the film was at times overwhelming. This may be the downside to many people's opinion of the film but I could cope. I realized the main characters, 'got to know them', and focused very much on them. Characters like 'The Duke' and 'Morty'; that way, I wasn't totally confused at first sight.

    The acting was good and there are moments which creep along silently that will have you on the edge of your seat. This included the factory in Amsterdam being robbed by 'The Duke' and his cronies as well as the scene during which our main character: 'XXXX' is pinned down in a park by a psychopathic Eastern European hit-man whilst on the phone to him.

    The acting is faultless and flows all the way through. When there are scenes which perhaps do go on longer than you'd like them to, the acting and dialogue just manage to keep them going to the end. The humour element is also there as I expected it would be. Most of the time they're 'chuckle to yourself' moments but there are two or three moments where you'll really find something funny and want to laugh out loud.

    Overall, it was great fun and a damn good film. I think it can just about stand it's self up there with Ritchie's two acts of brilliance as a result.

    I think you can tell; I enjoyed my piece.........


  • Quotes: XXXX: Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal. They won't leave it to people like me... not when they finally figure out how much money is to be made - not millions, fucking billions. Recreational drugs PLC - giving the people what they want... Good times today, Stupor tomorrow. But this is now, so until prohibition ends make hay whilst the sun shines. XXXX: [over the phone] Dragan? Dragan: Yes.
  • Also known as: L4yer Cake (Ireland - DVD box title, English title), L4yer Cake (UK - DVD box title), L4yer Cake (USA - DVD box title), Layer Cake (Canada - French title), Layer Cake (France - imdb display title), Layer Cake (Germany), No todo es lo que parece (Argentina - imdb display title), No todo es lo que parece (Mexico), Bir dilim suç (Turkey - Turkish title), Det sidste job (Denmark - TV title), Hapia, sfaires kai 2.000.000 lires (Greece - DVD title), L4yer Cak3 (Norway - DVD title), L4yer cake - diilerin käsikirja (Finland - DVD box title), Layer Cake - Crime Organizado (Portugal - imdb display title), Layer cake - crimen organizado (Spain), Nem Tudo é o Que Parece (Brazil), Przekladaniec (Poland - imdb display title), The Pusher (Italy), Torta (Hungary - imdb display title), U vrtlogu zlocina (Serbia),

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