The Business (film)
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| Directed by | Nick Love |
| Produced by | Allan Niblo James Richardson |
| Written by | Nick Love |
| Starring |
Danny Dyer Tamer Hassan Geoff Bell Georgina Chapman |
| Music by | Ivor Guest |
| Cinematography | Damian Bromley |
| Edited by | Stuart Gazzard |
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| Distributed by | Pathé |
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Release date
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2 September 2005 |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Spain |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | £2,000,000 |
| Box office | £1,535,641 |
The Business is a 2005 film written and directed by Nick Love. The film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian all of whom were in Love's previous film The Football Factory. It also stars Geoff Bell and Georgina Chapman. The plot of The Business follows the Greek tragedy-like rise and fall of a young cockney's career within a drug importing business run by a group of British ex-pat fugitive criminals living on the coast of the Costa del Sol (aka the "Costa del Crime") in Spain.
The film is narrated by Frankie (Dyer), a young everyman living in South East London during the Thatcher era of the 1980s, with little hope of ever making anything of himself, yet he dreams of "being somebody" and escaping his lonely, dreary lifestyle. After severely beating his mother's abusive boyfriend, he becomes a fugitive, and through family connections escapes to the Costa Del Sol. His job there is to deliver a bag containing money to "Playboy Charlie" (Hassan), an ex-pat and criminal-on-the-run, a suave and dapper man who is very successful in Spain and runs his own nightclub and drugs business and lives a life of luxury. Impressed by Frankie's honesty in not opening the bag, Charlie takes a liking to Frankie, introduces him to his business associates, including the psychopathic Sammy (Bell), and invites him to remain in Spain and work as his driver.
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