SYNOPSIS

Based upon JJ Connelly’s London crime novel, “Layer Cake” is about a successful cocaine dealer (Craig) who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite and plans an earlyretirement 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 the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. 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 drugs ring, threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

October 01, 2004

DIRECTOR

Matthew Vaughn

WRITER

J.J. Connolly

COMPANY

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

GENRE

Crime, Drama, Thriller

CERT

15

RUNTIME

105 minutes

IMAGES