Revolver (2005 film)
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| Directed by | Guy Ritchie |
| Produced by |
Luc Besson Virginie Silla Marty Katz |
| Written by | Guy Ritchie Luc Besson |
| Starring |
Jason Statham Ray Liotta André Benjamin Vincent Pastore Mark Strong Terrence Maynard Francesca Annis |
| Music by | Nathaniel Méchaly |
| Cinematography | Tim Maurice Jones |
| Edited by | James Herbert Ian Differ Romesh Aluwihare |
| Distributed by |
Samuel Goldwyn Films Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom France |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $6,735,963 |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | ||||
| Released | 17 October 2005 | |||
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Film score Acid jazz Electronic music Contemporary classical music |
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| Length | 58:45 | |||
| Label | Recall Music For Films | |||
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Revolver is a 2005 British-French crime thriller film co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin. The film centres on a revenge-seeking confidence trickster whose weapon is a universal formula that guarantees victory to its user, when applied to any game or confidence trick.
This is the fourth feature film by Ritchie and his third to centre on crime and professional criminals. It was released in UK theatres on 22 September 2005, but performed poorly at the box office. A reworked version was released to a limited number of US theatres on 7 December 2007.
Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta) is a gang boss involved in illegal gambling all over the city. With the help of three goons, known as "the three Eddies", he controls several games that take place in the underground. On one occasion, just before a big game, Macha loses his card man. With no chances left, Macha asks for help of Jake Green (Jason Statham), a card man with a good reputation underground. When Jake refuses, they harass Jake's brother, Billy (Andrew Howard), and Billy's family to convince Jake to play. He succumbs and plays the game, which he ends up winning. The loser, a high roller named George, insults Jake's mother and Jake responds by shooting him in the foot, igniting a gunfight in which the game's money vanishes.
Two weeks later, Jake's name is mentioned and he is brought in for questioning by the police. Taking precautionary measures, Macha sends the three Eddies to Billy's house where they threaten his niece. Billy's wife reacts poorly in the situation and is accidentally shot. Jake does not give Macha's name to the police to protect Billy and his family and ends up sentenced to prison. He is given a choice to either spend 14 years in general prison population or 7 years in solitary confinement. He chooses the latter.
During his seven-year stint imprisoned in solitary confinement Jake learns of a specific strategy (referred to as "The Formula") that is supposed to lead its user to win every game. The Formula itself was discovered by two unnamed men who inhabited adjacent cells on either side of Jake's own. They are referred to as a chess expert and a con man. During the first five years of his seven-year sentence, the three men communicated their thoughts on confidence tricks and chess moves via messages hidden inside library books, such as The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics.
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