Underplayed Gems

London Fields (2018)

London Fields poster
Directed by
Mathew Cullen
Genre
thriller film, mystery film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 304 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A terminally ill writer with a 20 year long writer's block sees a woman who he thinks might be his muse. He follows her and gets pulled into a dark world of deception and danger.

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What happens

London Fields is a 2018 mystery thriller film directed by Mathew Cullen from a screenplay by Roberta Hanley and Martin Amis, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amis. The film stars Billy Bob Thornton as Samson Young, a terminally ill writer who has suffered from writer's block for 20 years. The cast also includes Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Jason Isaacs, Cara Delevingne, Obi Abili, and Jaimie Alexander. The film was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, but it was later pulled from the festival roster after director Mathew Cullen sued the film's producers, accusing them of fraud and using his name to promote a cut of the film he does not support. After the producers reached a settlement with Cullen in a separate lawsuit, London Fields was released theatrically in the United States on 26 October 2018, and was a critical and commercial failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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