The Crew (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Adrian Vitoria |
| Produced by | Ian Brady Emmanuel Girod Elaine Grainger David Hayman Arnaud Lannic Julien Leonard Sarah Peters Rafael Quintian Stephen Salter |
| Written by | Ian Brady (Screenplay) Adrian Vitoria (Screenplay) Kevin Sampson ("Outlaws" novel) |
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Scot Williams Kenny Doughty Rory McCann and Stephen Graham |
| Music by | James Edward Barker |
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117 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$3,600,000 (estimated) |
This article is about the 2008 British movie. For the 2000 movie of the same name, see The Crew (2000 film). For the 2014 video game also with the same name, see The Crew (video game).
The Crew is a 2008 British crime film based on the novel Outlaws by Kevin Sampson. It is set in the criminal underworld of Northern England especially Liverpool, Merseyside.
As a major heist approaches and with betrayal all around him, respected crime boss Ged Brennan has to summon all his street nous and killer instinct as he fights for survival.
The film starts off with Gerard (Ged) Brennan and his crew hijacking a truck, only the truck is a dummy truck that is empty to ward of hijackers for that very purpose. The next morning, the radio news announces that a "business-man" named Leo Murphy, aka Leo the Pig, is found naked and killed on a boat out at sea. Even though the truck heist was a dud, Ged still has to pay his crew so that they don't go work for others and take jobs for other competitors; this causes a strain on his marriage with his wife Debbie. Their young son is unaware of what his father does for a living, wanting to go to "work" with his dad. When Ged goes to drop off his son at a posh, private school, their neighbor, Pamela Thompson, comes over. Pam and Deb do lines of cocaine at the house when Ged leaves; after Ged drops off his son, he drives to a desolated area where there are business people standing around. Pam's husband, Keith Thompson, is trying to get investors for a land deal, and Ged is one of the investors, but he has to front up the money to buy shares of the land; which he does not have all upfront. He gives Keith a down payment to hold a piece of the share for him, telling him that he'll get the rest soon.
John Paul, aka Ratter (Kenny Doughty), is pulling up to the crew's bar with his new lackey, Paul the Hom, who has small connections with the drug world. Outside the bar area are a group of wanna-be thugs, with a young kid, Ritchie, as the leader. They do little side jobs for the crews and others, and know bits and pieces of info here and there about the crime world. Ratter is Ged's younger brother; and he and Paul wants to take the crew into a new business venture, drugs. Ratter brought Paul along as a get-up to convince the crew to take over Leo's business turf, especially Ged, who is the crew's boss. When Paul starts talking about how much money they could make, the crew gets interested, but when Ged arrives and Paul and Ratter tries to pitch the sale to Ged, he doesn't buy into it. Ged is old-school when it comes to his crimes, and he won't mix in with the drug business because he knows that drugs is always the most riskiest of crimes; people always get caught or end up dead. Ged won't have anything to do with drugs, and throws Paul out of the bar. He wants to just stick with his truck heists, and he displays his disappointment in Ratter.
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