The Smoke

The Smoke (2014)

How much could you take?

City lawyer Brad Walker is having the worst day of his life. His high-maintenance girlfriend Sasha has left him for his so-called friend Tom and to add insult to injury, he's been fired too. On a night out drowning his sorrows with old friend Dean, he overhears a conversation between Phil and Ben - two drug dealers working for small-time gangster Jack - that will change his life forever...

Date of release
2014-10-04
TMDB
3.8 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Director
Ben Pickering

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: London

The Smoke, also known as Two Days in the Smoke, is a 2014 British crime thriller film directed by Ben Pickering and starring Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus, Lindsay Armaou, Anna Passey and Alan Ford. It was written by Darren Ripley.

Production

In April 2012, Screen Daily announced Matt Di Angelo, Alan Ford and Stephen Marcus had all signed on to appear in the film under its shooting title Two Days in the Smoke.

Sections of the film were filmed at Tower Bridge, Covent Garden, St Pancras railway station, RAF Uxbridge, the Apex London Wall Hotel and Apex City of London Hotel, and the Pont Alexandre III bridge over the River Seine in Paris, France.

The budget for the film was over £500,000 and the film was the first to be funded using the UK Government's Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, launched while the film was mid-production.

The soundtrack features songs from Grammy-nominated En Vogue, Some Velvet Morning and an end title song by Lindsay Armaou (of Irish girlband B*Witched, who also stars in the film).

The film was picked up at Cannes in 2014 by UK distributor Signature Entertainment and renamed The Smoke. Their linear studio cut of the film was released in the UK on 20 October 2014. The film was released in the US and other countries as London Payback.

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