Rent Boat Story (2023)
3.7 of 5 from 52 ratings
5h 41min
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- Synopsis:
- When two hard-up strangers, Janet (Daisy Haggard) and Samuel (Paterson Joseph), stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat, they can't believe their luck. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they quickly find themselves entangled with police, masked hitmen, and a sharp-suited gangster known only as 'The Tailor' (Tcheky Karyo). 'Boat Story' is a thriller with a darkly comic heart about two ordinary people whom the world has turned its back on, and whether they're willing - or desperate enough - to do something crazy to get what they want in life. Pushed to the very edge, can they trust each other and get away with their lives and the money?
- Actors:
- Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, Michele Austin, Ethan Lawrence, Joanna Scanlan, Tchéky Karyo, Craig Fairbrass, Oliver Sheridan, Cherie Gordon, Rick S. Carr, Jason Pennycooke, Phil Daniels, John O'Neill, Matthew Mellalieu, William Fox, Lucy Montgomery, Paul-Hector Antoine, Craig Kelly, Nigel Betts, Danielle Warwick
- Directors:
- Daniel Nettheim, Alice Troughton, Harry Williams, Jack Williams
- Producers:
- Matthew Bird
- Narrated By:
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
- Creators:
- Harry Williams, Jack Williams
- Writers:
- Sophie Goodhart, Harry Williams, Jack Williams
- Studio:
- Dazzler
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/12/2023
- Run Time:
- 341 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes episodes 1 - 3
- Disc 2:
- This disc includes episodes 4 - 6
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Reviews (1) of Boat Story
Drama for cool kids - Boat Story review by DM
The storybook narration tells you you're not supposed to believe in any of this. (You are too cool and clever to be taken in by fiction's tricks, see.) Also, you do need to find extreme violence funny, or at least worthy of a smirk. So it's Tarantino for Brits -- or Tarantino with a dash of the Coens, only the Coens don't deploy violence gratuitously. And transplanting Tarantino's hyper-violence to Britain doesn't really work because you'd immediately have a nationwide manhunt and we are a small country with a lot of CCTV, so I doubt if the same rules apply. Guy Ritchie for smarter viewers, perhaps? (That's not hard, admittedly.) Overall it's clever-clever but dispiriting in its view of people.
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