I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)

Director: Mike Hodges
Production Co: Paramount Pictures,Paramount
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 4.4/10
Length: 102 mins

Storyline

Former gangster Will Graham (Clive Owen) is living a quiet life in the English countryside. When he learns his brother (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a low-level drug dealer, has committed suicide, Will travels to London to investigate his death. He reconnects with his former lover, Helen (Charlotte Rampling), and starts piecing together the circumstances surrounding his brother's death. When he learns a man named Boad (Malcolm McDowell) is responsible, Will seeks revenge.

Plot Keywords

ex-mobster, crime boss, former lover, drug dealer, brother, bleak, gritty, london, van, countryside, restaurant, suicide, death of brother, investigation, rape, brother relationship, drug trade, revenge, quest, 2000s

Short Review

If anything, there a little too much dramatic action to be fully explored here. But if that makes for a slightly unsatisfying end result, it's no great criticism of an otherwise mature, sleazy piece of British film noir.