Mr Nice
Adapted from the autobiography by the real-life Howard Marks this intriguing comedy/drama details the life of Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans), an Oxford scholar from Wales who became a notorious smuggler. During the mid 1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines, and twenty five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organizations as diverse as the CIA, MI6, the IRA, and the Mafia.
Year: 2011
Genre: Comedy, Drama, True Stories, Biography
Country: UK
Director: Bernard Rose
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Crispin Glover, David Thewlis, Rhys Ifans, Omar Djalili, Elsa Pataky, Jack Huston, Christian McKay, Jamie Harris
Duration: 116 Minutes
Rating: R16 - Contains violence, drug use, sex scenes and offensive language.
Location in store: Comedy
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