MR NICE

Year: 2010
UK: Entertainment One UK
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis, Elsa Pataky, Andrew Tiernan, Omid Djalili, Jack Huston, Ania Sowinski, Jamie Harris, Christian McKay, Kinsey Packard, Ken Russell, Craig Stevenson, Luis Tosar
Director: Bernard Rose
Country: UK
UK: 121 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains frequent drug use
UK Release Date: 8 October 2010 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

"Most wasted."

Based on the bestselling autobiography of the same name, MR NICE is the extraordinary story of Howard Marks.

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing.

At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tonnes of marijuana from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia.