The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen is a 2019 gangster film written, directed and produced by Guy Ritchie, who developed the story along with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant. It follows an American drug lord in England who is looking to sell his business, setting off a chain of blackmail and schemes to undermine him. The Gentlemen premiered at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema on December 3, 2019, and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2020, by Entertainment Film Distributors, and in the United States on January 24, 2020, by STXfilms. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was also a commercial success, grossing $115 million worldwide against its $22 million budget. A spin-off television series was released by Netflix in 2024 with Theo James starring in the lead role.
And what might this be? It's a paperweight to keep down all the paper I'm about to give you. - Well, it looks like a gun. - And it's a paperweight. Seeing how in this country, unlike in our homeland, they're illegal. So is riding your bicycle at night without lights. Laws are there as a guideline. In France, it's illegal to call a pig Napoleon, but just try and stop me.
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You might see a couple of trucks around here over the next few days, but that's it. Well, I'm not gonna pretend that missing out on a million pounds commission a year isn't going to hurt somewhat. The pain is being shared. Stolen product, loss of earnings meantime, the cost of shutting down, the expense of setting up elsewhere.
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Now, there's only one thing that needs more looking after than a toff, and that is a toff's offspring. Which brings me neatly back to Big Dave's story, the very reason I'm sitting here sipping whiskey with you in the first fucking place. This is how Big Dave is gonna bring Mickey down, by using and abusing Lord Pressfield's much-beloved child. Lord Pressfield's daughter, the famous and talented Laura, all self-hate and harm, has fallen for this Power Noel's smacked-out dark charm, and I want the lot of them, especially that slimy little jam rag Pearson, in bed with a skint, discredited toff, and supplying gear to young and reckless rock-star royals, royals unbridled by distracted parents too busy skiing on the Swiss Alps to notice and too fucking stupid to care. [chuckles] I like it. You're good at this, boss. Yeah, I know what I'm good at, Hammy. Fuck off.
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