THE GENTLEMEN (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Jeremy Strong (The Big Short), Eddie Marsan (The World’s End), Colin Farrell (In Bruges), Hugh Grant (Paddington 2), Jason Wong (Panic), Brittany Ashworth (Mrs. Ratcliffe’s Revolution), Eliot Sumner (Stardust), Lyne Renée (The Hessen Affair), Chris Evangelou (Faces), Eugenia Kuzmina (Bad Moms)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), director, writer, producer; Ivan Atkinson (film debut) and Bill Block (Fury), producers; Alan Stewart (Aladdin), cinematographer; James Herbert (Edge of Tomorrow), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

American expat Mickey Pearson (McConaughey) builds an extremely profitable marijuana empire in London, but when word gets out that he is looking to sell the business and get out of his criminal life once and for all, it triggers several attempts by many other criminals to steal his domain from right under his nose…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Guy Ritchie returns to his gangster roots for his most star-studded crime caper since RocknRolla, with big-name Hollywood players like Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant joining the cast for good old-fashioned cock-er-ney fun.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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