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44 Inch Chest (2009)
Director: Malcolm Venville
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From Time Out Online
When hard man Colin Diamond’s wife ends their 21-year marriage with a confession of infidelity, the big man flips and takes to the bottle. Still, he’s in better shape than his wife’s lover whom his four foul-mouthed, criminally-minded mates have kidnapped for retribution. Winstone tears up the screen in this stage-like, five-hander with a virtuoso performance of a broken, maudlin, melancholic man on the brink of self-destruction. Hurt, McShane, Wilkinson and Dillane, meanwhile, add extra weight to what is essentially a poignant, emotional and often amusing eulogy on the meanings of love and marriage.Author: Derek Adams
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Malcolm Venville
Cast: Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 94 mins
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