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Dominican Rep. Dead Man’s Shoes
- Original title
- Dead Man’s Shoes
- Year
- 2004
- Running time
- 90 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
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- Cinematography
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- Genre
- Drama. Thriller | Serial Killers. Revenge
- Synopsis
- Richard (Paddy Considine) has always protected his simple-minded little brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell). When Richard leaves the rural village where they have grown up to join the army, Anthony is taken in by Sonny (Gary Stretch), a controlling and vicious local drug dealer and his gang of lads. Anthony becomes the gang’s pet and plaything. Seven years later, Richard returns to settle the score. One by one, he hunts down each member of the gang and executes them in increasingly elaborate ways as flashbacks reveal the extent to which his brother suffered at their hands.
DEAD MAN’S SHOES is a genre-defying film blending horror, supernatural elements, comedy, and social realism. Set in a Midlands village, it explores the underbelly of contemporary rural Britain in communities where crime is unchecked and drugs, intimidation, and power games are blandly accepted as the fabric of daily life.- Awards
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2004: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best British Film2004: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): 6 Nominations, incl. Best Movie
- Critics' reviews
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"For all 'Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated"
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"This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread"
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"The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents"
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"There are flashes of grim humor interspersed with the murders, but not enough wit to elevate this movie beyond its primary identity: grisly revenge fantasy"
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"Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting"
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