44 inch chest

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Movie
Original title 44 inch chest
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Malcolm Venville
script Louis Mellis
David Scinto
production Richard Brown
Steve Golin
music Angelo Badalamenti
camera Daniel Landin
cut Rick Russell
occupation

44 Inch Chest is a British feature film released in 2009. The screenplay was written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto, who also worked together on another British gangster drama called Sexy Beast . The film was produced by Richard Brown and Steve Golin ( Babel , forget mine! ). It's the feature film debut of British commercial director and photographer Malcolm Venville. The music was created in a collaboration between the American composer Angelo Badalamenti and the British trip-hop - band Massive Attack .

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Colin Diamond is a successful car salesman. After finding out that his wife, Liz, is having an affair, he suffers an emotional breakdown. His friends convince him to kidnap, torture and ultimately kill his wife's lover. Diamond's criminal partners are the gay gambler Meredith, the quirky and bigoted Old Man Peanut, the down-to-earth Archie and the dangerous Mal. They take turns promoting Colin's vindictiveness and sympathizing with his situation. They conspire emotionally and mentally against Liz 'new man Loverboy, a "frog legs" waiter , by first locking him in a closet and then threatening him, tying him to a chair and finally humiliating him with verbal and physical assaults.

Parts of the story appear in flashbacks where Colin discovers Liz's infidelity and the aftermath of it, which then affects the present as he tries to cope with his shame . Parts of the story also appear in Colin's mind, trying to reconcile himself with himself using his friends as representations of his own turmoil and as a solution to the situation.

Reviews

44 Inch Chest received mixed reviews . Thus were rotten tomatoes that 40% of 77 assessments were positive, which corresponds to an average of 5.2 out of 10 possible points. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph gave the film 3 out of a possible 5 stars. News of the World gave 4 out of 5 stars. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw was less enthusiastic and only gave the film 2 out of 5 stars.

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