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Love, Honour and Obey

£35.00

Film

Love, Honour and Obey

Additional information

Year

2000

Size/Type

UK Quad (30" x 40") Double Sided, ‘Black’ Style

Country of Origin

British / UK

Condition

Very Fine plus / Originally Rolled (as issued)

Director

Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis

Actor/Actress

Denise Van Outen, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Kathy Burke, Ray Winstone, Rhys Ifans, Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee

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“A blade ain’t a really effective weapon when you’re up against someone who is trained in several different kinds of martial arts. No really, mate, these hands are like deadly weapons. I can protect myself. Come on, go for it. Stab me.”

In 1998 a British film was released that launched the modern ‘Brit Gangster’ genre….that film was “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and the relaunched genre is still going strong and showing no sign of flagging. “Love, Honour and Obey” stars a wealth of British acting royalty…Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Rhys Ifans, Sean Pertwee etc  and it is these actors who are featured on this typical ‘cast style’ 2000 UK quad film poster for Dominic Anciano‘s & Ray Burdis‘ cockney gangster comedy “Love, Honour and Obey”. The originally rolled (as issued) film poster offered here is the ‘black’ style and is presented in very good condition with just minor handling wear and represents an extremely desirable piece of original British movie memorabilia.

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Film Description

Love, Honour and Obey Movie Poster

“Ray runs North London’s most powerful criminal gang, and his nephew Jude is a polished and successful member. Jude’s boyhood friend Jonny comes to Jude with an idea he wants to pitch to Ray; Jude is reluctant to mix friendship with business (and family), but he does arrange a meeting. Ray takes Jonny on (he uses his job as a courier to steal credit cards), but Jonny soon finds himself bored: the gang is more interested in goofing around and planning Ray’s wedding than in fighting, havoc, and mayhem. Jonny wants violence, so he repeatedly tries to start trouble with the South London equivalent of Ray’s gang. Will he succeed ? If he does, will he find glory in war ?”

Bored with his hum-drum life as a North London postman, Jonny approaches his pal Jude about getting in with the North London Mob run by Jude’s uncle Ray. After winning favour with Ray by bringing a credit card scam into the gang, Jonny starts to spice things up by causing trouble with the rival mob from South London. But although Jonny has won respect from his fellow gang members, he’s also getting ideas above his station, and it’s not long before his actions put everyone in danger, including their families.

So a load of well known British actors make a humorous tongue in cheek satire of the gangster genre, and many failed to get it. Working from a very basic plot and script, directors and writers Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis gathered the likes of Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke and Sean Pertwee. And let them run with it. Creating a funny ad-libbed picture that the cast clearly enjoyed making, and really the viewers should be in on the joke as well. Anyone expecting some hard edged Brit gangster film are in for a big disappointment, there is violence and there are drugs, but nothing here is designed for shock value. This really is a fun movie, slyly poking the ribs of gangs and their bosses whilst cutely reminding all that families get involved as well. From the use of Viagra to karaoke sequences, Love, Honour and Obey is a British treasure that has been badly misunderstood. If the fact that the coup de grace at the finale is played out in fancy dress doesn’t tell you that it has been taking the urine, well you have walked down the wrong garden path.

 

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