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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy, Drama - 116 minutes

Log Line

The life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.

Previous markets

  • AFM 2008 (Debut)
  • Berlin EFM 2009 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2009 (Line up)
  • Toronto 2009 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Bernard ROSE
Writer(s) : Bernard ROSE, Howard MARKS
Cast : Rhys IFANS, Chloe SEVIGNY, David THEWLIS, Omid DJALILI, Luis TOSAR, Elsa PATAKY, Crispin GLOVER, Jamie HARRIS

Producer(s) : Luc ROEG (Independent), Daniel SHEPHERD, James PERKINS, Mark ALBELLA (Kanzaman), Denise O'DELL (Kanzaman), Andrew ORR (Independent)

Synopsis

Nuclear physicist, marijuana connoisseur, school teacher, money launderer, gentleman, fugitive and spy…
Raconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science and supposed 20th century gay icon…
Rock Music tour promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet. MR NICE.
From: Kenfig, South Wales, 1945. To: Oxford University, Germany, London, Ireland, Pakistan, Amsterdam, Thailand, Ibiza, Majorca, Manila, America. Jail.
Contact with: the mafia, CIA, IRA and MI6.
43 aliases, 4 kids, 89 phone lines, 25 companies throughout the world and over one million books sold. We follow Howard’s prodigious rise. And fall. This is the frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal story of Howard’s life so far.
“The most sophisticated drugs baron of all time…He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone”
- The Daily Mail

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM

Start of shooting : January 2009

AUSTRALIA EAGLE ENTERTAIN
BELGIUM Aug 10, 2011 PARADISO FILMED
CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
FRANCE UFO DISTRIBUTIO
GERMANY KOCH FILMS GMBH
ITALY MOVIES INSPIRED
POLAND May 20, 2011 HAGI FILM
SWEDEN Nov 19, 2010 PAN VISION AB
UNITED ARA SHOOTING STARS
USA MPI MEDIA GROUP


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