SHINER
Year: 2000
UK: Momentum Pictures
Cast: Michael Caine, Matthew Marsden, Frank Harper, Frances Barber, Martin Landau, Claire Rushbrook, Andy Serkis, Gary Lewis, Eamon Geoghegan, Kenneth Cranham, Derrick Harmon, David Kennedy, Nicola Walker, Peter Wight
Director: John Irvin
Country: UK
UK: 99 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains coarse language and strong bloody violence
UK Release Date: 14 September 2001
Synopsis
Michael Caine plays Billy "Shiner" Simpson, an East End Londoner with a reputation as a hard man who is now a boxing promoter representing his son Eddie "Golden Boy" (Matthew Marsden). With Eddie about to take part in a crucial fight his dad Shiner is faced with the prospect of being arrested by one of his daughters Georgie (Frances Barber), for having organised an illegal fight and events spiral very bloodily out of control.