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Release Date
• USA: Oct 8, 1999
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 21, 2000
• R2: 12 Aug 2002
Budget USD 9,000,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 29 minutes
Country USA
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• The Limey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Revenge, Murder, Suspense, Gangsters, Drugs, Culture Clash, Black Comedy
Tagline: Vengeance knows no boundaries.
Plot: With THE LIMEY, director Steven Soderbergh has crafted a stylish revenge thriller that also contains a refreshing sense of humor. Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con, travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death, which he is convinced was not accidental. After meeting Ed (Luis Guzmán), a friend of his daughter’s who sent him a letter informing him of her passing, he finds out about her affair with Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), a drug-dealing, money-laundering record producer, and begins to hunt him down. Partnered with Ed as well as Elaine (Lesley Ann Warren), his daughter’s former voice coach, Wilson encounters a near-fatal beating, is thrown from a building window, survives a dangerous car chase, and battles an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals. Soderbergh's follow-up to the critically beloved OUT OF SIGHT finds him in similar neo-noir waters, but this time he utilizes atypical editing and narrative technique for the film’s entirety. In a striking move, he ingeniously incorporates footage of Stamp as a young man in Ken Loach's 1967 film POOR COW for truly realistic flashbacks. As the fuming Wilson--a hell-bent, white-haired avenging angel--Stamp proves, once again, to be a truly magnetic screen presence.
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Lem Dobbs
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