Hummingbird (film)
| Hummingbird | |
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UK theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Steven Knight |
| Produced by | Guy Heeley Paul Webster |
| Written by | Steven Knight |
| Starring |
Jason Statham Agata Buzek Christian Brassington Vicky McClure Benedict Wong Ger Ryan |
| Music by | Dario Marianelli |
| Cinematography | Chris Menges |
| Edited by | Valerio Bonelli |
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IM Global
Shoebox Films |
| Distributed by |
Lionsgate Roadside Attractions |
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Release date
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $12,671,109 |
Hummingbird (released as Redemption in the U.S.) is a 2013 British action drama film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham.
Joseph Smith (Jason Statham) is an ex-Special Forces veteran who went AWOL from his unit in Afghanistan, and now lives as a homeless drunk in London. One night while fleeing thugs who were shaking down the homeless, he breaks into an apartment and discovers the owner, a photographer named Damon, will be in New York for several months until the first of October. He begins to assume the life of the owner, driving his car and living in the apartment, calling himself Joey Jones, and spends his time looking for his homeless friend Isabel (Victoria Bewick), from whom he was separated in the streets. He finds Damon's new debit card in the apartment mail, and begins a regimen of self-improvement. Meanwhile Isabel has been coerced into becoming a prostitute by the same thug that hassled her and Joey.
Joey is friends with Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek), a Polish nun who runs the local soup kitchen, and she helps him with antibiotics for the wounds he received in the fight with the thugs and information on Isabel's whereabouts. To deflect suspicion of Damon's neighbors he tells them that he is Damon's boyfriend. To avoid using any more of Damon's money from the debit card Joey gets a job in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. One night at work the management call upon him to help deal with some rowdy diners, his fighting skills bring him to the attention of Mr. Choy (Benedict Wong), a senior manager in a London Chinese organized crime syndicate, who hires him as a driver and enforcer, collecting extortion payments and delivering drugs. He saves some of the money he receives and begins to do charitable work, ordering pizzas for the homeless at the soup kitchen and buying gifts for Cristina. The homeless begin calling him "Crazy Joe". He finds Dawn (Vicky McClure), his ex and mother of his young daughter, and starts giving her money.
Joey invites Cristina to dinner at a barbecue in the street behind the Chinese restaurant. Cristina attends, but only to show him a police photo of Isabel, who had been beaten to death and thrown in the river. Joey is enraged, but Cristina is able to calm him, and encourages him to start an honest life. He finds the street thugs who chased him away from Isabel and viciously beats them, interrogating them about Isabel's murder, acquiring a rough description of her killer. Joey meets Cristina at an art gallery showing off Damon's work, to give her this information to pass on to the police. She gets a bit tipsy, opens up to Joey, and they kiss. She tells him about a ballet ticket she has for the same date as when Damon is due to return – 1 October.
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