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The Business (2005)

The Business poster
Directed by
Nick Love
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom, Spain
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 136 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a young cockney man who gets involved with a gang of British criminals living in Spain. Their drug business leads to his rise and eventual downfall.

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What happens

The Business is a 2005 crime 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. Geoff Bell and Georgina Chapman also appear. 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 expatriate fugitive criminals living on the Costa del Sol in Spain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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