Layer Cake
The art of good business is being a good middleman.
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
- Director
- Matthew Vaughn
- Worldwide
- $12M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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Box Office & Release
Layer Cake returned 1.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $12M
- Release date
- Sep 30, 2004
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Romanian
- Country
- United Kingdom
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