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Three Day Millionaire
UK 2022
produced by
Giles Alderson, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar, Jack Spring, Andrew Pettit (executive), Colm Meaney (executive), Reinhard Besser (executive), Walter Mair (executive) for Shush Films, Picture Perfect
directed by Jack Spring
starring James Burrows, Lauren Foster, Melissa Batchelor, Sam Glen, Michael KinseyGrace Long, Robbie Gee, Jonas Armstrong, Johanna Allitt, Colm Meaney, Catherine Adams, Matthew Ride-Smith, Catherine Garten, Matthew Blake, David MacCreedy, Charlie Woodward, Andrew Readman, James Fisher, Adrian Hood, Joncie Elmore, Daniel Thrace, Sean Tizzard, Sammy Measom, Lee Toomes, Laura Peterson, Rory Wilton, Maurice Byrne, Bobby Diamond, Sean Wood
written by Paul Stephenson, music by Jeremy James Hunt
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Not too long, Grimsby, England, UK was a booming city and the heart of
the fishing industry - but things went downhill due to several factors,
new fishing restrictions, changing tastes and monopolisation among them.
Still, Curly (James Burrows) is happy to be a trawlerman, and so is his
best friend Budgie (Sam Glen) - and they especially enjoy their weekends
when they arrive back ashore and have three days to blow their wages,
making them feel like "three day millionaires". But this
weekend, things are different as they learn that Barr (Colm Meaney), boss
of the last big Grimsby fishing company (and their boss) has decided to
sell his whole company, especially though the land it's on, to a group of
land developers, who want to gentrify the area and get rid of the slowly
failing fishing industry altogethe - so from one day to the next Curly and
Budgie see their future destroyed. Enter Mr. Graham (Jonas Armstrong), one
of Barr's office employees, who just happens to know where Barr keeps his
not quite legal cash, and knows how to get to it, which involves a
minutely planned heist pulled off by Curly, Budgie and their druggie
friend Codge (Michael Kinsey), with Graham pulling the strings from afar.
And the plan is really next to perfect - so perfect that it goes perfectly
wrong before long ...
A highly entertaining heist movie, and one that focusses on
the comic rather than the action side of the story, but without ever
becoming moronic and always open to let some drama or some social
commentary slip in, and with enough suspense in all the right moments,
thanks to a well-structured and well-paced script and a light-footed
enough directorial effort. And an uniformly strong cast with a pretty
hilarious Colm Meaney as the sort-of villain of the piece really make this
fun to watch as well.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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