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Hard Boiled Sweets (2012)

Hard Boiled Sweets poster
Directed by
David L.G. Hughes
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
15
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of Essex gangsters bicker among themselves while their criminal dealings start to unravel. The film follows their squabbles and the trouble that comes with their violent lifestyle.

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What happens

Hard Boiled Sweets is a 2012 British crime drama film written and directed by David L.G. Hughes. It tells the story of a group of squabbling Essex gangsters. The cast includes two actors (Paul Freeman and Ian Hart) that had appeared in Hughes' earlier short film A Girl and a Gun from which this, his first feature, was developed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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