Johnny Was

Johnny Was

Infobox Film
name = Johnny Was


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caption = "Johnny Was" DVD cover
director = Mark Hammond
producer = Brendan Foley
writer = Brendan Foley
narrator =
starring = Vinnie Jones
Patrick Bergin
Eriq La Salle
Samantha Mumba
Lennox Lewis
music =
cinematography = Mark Moriarty
editing = Leif Axel Kjeldsen
distributor = Sony Pictures Entertainment
released = 2006
runtime = 93 min
country = UKIRL
language = English
budget =
gross =
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0426501

"Johnny Was" is a British/Irish gangster movie directed by Mark Hammond and written by Brendan Foley and made by Ben Katz Productions, Borderline Productions and Nordisk Film in 2005 and was released in the UK in 2006 by Sony Pictures and in the US by First Look Studios.

ynopsis

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian Yardie crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs.

As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. It is a thriller in the vein of "The Long Good Friday", in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a soundtrack of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.

"Variety" raved about the original reggae soundtrack by Adrian Sherwood.Fact|date=February 2007

Cast

*Vinnie Jones - Johnny Doyle
*Eriq La Salle - Julius
*Patrick Bergin - Flynn
*Samantha Mumba - Rita
*Lennox Lewis - Ras
*Wilson Jermaine Heredia - Sparra
*Roger Daltrey - Jimmy

Financial information

Johnny Was was principally financed by Ben Katz Productions, the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, the Irish Film Board, and Nordisk.

=Trivia=The scene set in Brixton Market was actually filmed at Smithfield Market in Belfast. Many of the shots were taken in various locations around Northern Ireland.The singer of The Who, Roger Daltrey, played Jimmy Nolan.

External links

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