Mr. Nice
Synopsis
Raconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science and supposed 20th century gay icon.
Rock Music tour promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet.
Mr. Nice.
From: Kenfig, South Wales, 1945. To: Oxford University, Germany, London, Ireland, Pakistan, Amsterdam, Thailand, Ibiza, Majorca, Manila, America. Jail.
Contact with: the mafia, CIA, IRA and MI6.
43 aliases, 4 kids, 89 phone lines, 25 companies throughout the world and over one million books sold. We follow Howard’s prodigious rise. And fall. This is the frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal story of Howard's life so far.
'The most sophisticated drugs baron of all time - He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone.'
Details
- Year
- 2009
- Type of film
- Features
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Bernard Rose
- Producer
- Michael Robinson, Andrew Orr, Daniel Shepherd, James Perkins, Denise O’ Dell, Mark Albela, Alejandro Novillo
- Editor
- Teresa Font Guiteras
- Screenwriter
- Bernard Rose, based on Howard Marks' autobiography
- Director of Photography
- Bernard Rose
- Production Designer
- Max Gottlieb
- Sound
- Paddy Owen
- Music
- Philip Glass
- Principal cast
- Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Omid Djalili
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Independent Film Company
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Sales Company
Independent Film Company
32 Tavistock StreetLondon WC2E 7PB
UK
T +44 (0)20 7257 8734
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