I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, released by Paramount Classics in 2004, is a British crime film from the director of Get Carter (the 1971 Michael Caine classic) and Croupier, Mike Hodges .
Academy Award nominee Clive Owen (Closer, King Arthur) stars as Will Graham, a former London enforcer who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But after his sibling (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Alexander) commits suicide after a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile crime lord (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange), Will returns to London to murder those responsible. There he must also face old enemies and a former love, Helen (Charlotte Rampling, Spy Game).
The film was released in select US cinemas on 16 June 2004.
"R," for language, a rape scene, violent images and brief drug use.
Critical analysis
"Does the film work? All I know is that it stays in my mind for its ambitiously autumnal essence, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea."
-- Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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