Rent Stormy Monday (1988)
3.2 of 5 from 77 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
- In 1988, Mike Figgis made his feature directorial debut with 'Stormy Monday', a taut, noir-influenced gangster movie that drew on his key formative influences, including his youth in the Newcastle of the late '50s and early '60s, and the city's vibrant jazz scene. Sean Bean plays Brendan, a young loafer taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney (Sting), who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones) to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate (Melanie Griffith) threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown...
- Actors:
- Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Mark Long, Brian Lewis, Ying Tong John, Mick Hamer, Ian Hinchcliffe, Andrzej Borkowski, Caroline Hutchison, Les Wilde, Desmond Gill, Benny Graham, Scott Hoxby, Catherine Chevalier, Brendan P. Healy, Clive Curtis, Heathcote Williams
- Directors:
- Mike Figgis
- Producers:
- Nigel Stafford-Clark
- Writers:
- Mike Figgis
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- People of the Pictures, Remembering Julian Sands and Frederic Forrest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/07/2017
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary with Mike Figgis, Moderated by Critic Damon Wise
- New Video Appreciation by Critic Neil Young, and a "then and now" tour of the film's Newcastle locations
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (2) of Stormy Monday
A Top British Crime Drama. - Stormy Monday review by GI
This is an absolutely riveting British crime drama that has a cult following although is often forgotten when speaking of great British crime films. It's a real gem of a film, tough, gritty and typical in style to the best British crime films like Get Carter (1971) and The Long Good Friday (1980) so if you loved those then this will not disappoint. Sean Bean, in one of his very earliest film roles, is Brendan, a music loving young man who gets a job in a Newcastle Jazz Club run by Finney (Sting, proving here what a very accomplished actor he is). It's 'America' week in Newcastle and a big American investor, Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones) is in town meeting with local dignitaries and planning to invest heavily in a regeneration of the city. But Cosmo is a corrupt businessman and his plans include buying Finney's club, who is refusing to sell. When Brendan meets and begins a relationship with the beautiful Kate (Melanie Griffith), who happens to work for Cosmo, he finds himself caught up in a violent dispute between Finney and Cosmo. Noirish in style and capturing the rundown look of North-East England this is a cleverly written and directed film about corruption, bribery and power hungry millionairs with a plot that works on coincidences but does so in a way that really works. It's a tough story, with some very realistic violence although it never slips into gratuitousness. Like other great British crime films the characters seem very real indeed. Check this out if you've never seen it it's a fantastic little film and deserves to be rediscovered.
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HAS NOT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. - Stormy Monday review by DW
I did not watch to the end, nowhere near the end, in fact. This sort of British film may have been ok in the late 80's but it's not good enough now, by to-days standards.
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