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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Malcolm Venville
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Actors:
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Andy de la Tour,
Melvil Poupaud,
Steven Berkoff,
Stephen Dillane,
Dave Legeno,
Joanne Whalley,
Tom Wilkinson,
Ian McShane,
Ray Winstone,
John Hurt
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)114
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Plot Summary:
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Provocative, outrageously debase and surprisingly gig amidst an spasm of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST explores the masculine ego at breaking theme, testing whether be is stronger than love. Colin (Gleam Winstone) is in distress, shattered away his wife's (Joanne Whalley) faithlessness. However, he has friends who do more than suffer by - they kidnap the missus's French lover and hang on a last him prisoner so that Colin can rejuvenate his manhood with revenge. A kangaroo court takes bung and as the situation escalates Loverboy's energy hangs in the match as Colin wrestles with get eve... n for, penitence, grief and self pity, all the while egged on by his motley crew of friends who at best want him to cause on with it so they can get down the dive.Read more Less
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44 Inch Chest
Although stoning people to death for adultery has never really caught on in Britain, the only problem guys like Colin Diamond would have with this course of action is that it lets the culprits off a bit too easy. We sense that he and his dodgy mates are the sort of blokes who wouldn't think too badly of a married man for a quick back-alley fumble with a lap dancer, but for them, for a woman to sleep with another man behind her husband's back still represents the ultimate betrayal. And so cuckolded Colin confuses his unmanly sorrow with righteous anger and determines to mete out punishment to his tormentors - with a little help from his friends. Advertised as a geezer flick in the Guy Ritchie style, only with an above averagely thespy cast, ...
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