44 Inch Chest
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| Directed by | Malcolm Venville |
| Produced by | Richard Brown Steve Golin |
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Louis Mellis David Scinto |
| Starring |
Ray Winstone Ian McShane John Hurt Tom Wilkinson Stephen Dillane Joanne Whalley |
| Music by | Angelo Badalamenti |
| Cinematography | Daniel Landin |
| Edited by | Rick Russell |
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| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $247,553 |
44 Inch Chest is a 2009 British crime comedy-drama film directed by Malcolm Venville in his directorial debut. The film stars Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane and Joanne Whalley. The film was released on 19 October 2009.
It was written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto, who both previously wrote Sexy Beast, and produced by Richard Brown and Steve Golin (Babel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and cinematography by Daniel Landin, the score is a collaboration between Angelo Badalamenti and Massive Attack.
Colin Diamond Ray Winstone is a successful car salesman who after a discovering his wife Liz is having an affair, has an emotional breakdown. His friends convince him to kidnap his wife's lover and then encourage him to torture and kill him.
Diamond's partners in crime are suave homosexual gambler Meredith Ian McShane, crotchety and bigoted Old Man Peanut John Hurt, the down to earth Archie Tom Wilkinson and the combustible Mal Stephen Dillane, who by turns encourage Colin's lust for revenge and sympathise with his situation, and conspire to emotionally and mentally torture Liz's new boyfriend, Loverboy, a "Frog" waiter, first by locking him in a cupboard and threatening him, and tying him up and subjecting him to humiliating verbal and physical assault.
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