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THE SWEENEY

By Nick LOVE

PROTAGONIST PICTURES - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 2011

‘The Sweeney’ is London's elite crime fighting unit who always get their man - by fair means or foul. But when the unit is framed for corruption and closed down, the cops without badges are burning for revenge.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Thriller, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Nick LOVE
- Writer(s)
- Nick LOVE, John HODGE
- Cast
- Ray WINSTONE, Ben DREW, Hayley ATWELL, Damian LEWIS, Steven MACKINTOSH, Paul ANDERSON
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-767E-0000-W-0000-0000-F
- EIDR
- 10.5240/105A-131A-73FB-F160-1F7C-A
- Producer(s)
- Allan NIBLO (Vertigo Films), James RICHARDSON (Vertigo Films), Rupert PRESTON (Vertigo Films), Felix VOSSEN (Embargo Films), Christopher SIMON (Embargo Films)
- Synopsis
- Regan (Winstone) is London’s toughest cop and head of ‘The Sweeney’, an elite crime fighting unit who always get their man. When Regan’s nemesis – a master criminal named Allen (Paul Anderson) – turns central London into a battle ground and his unit are framed for corruption, Regan and his young partner Carter (Drew) find themselves removed from duty and thrown to the mercy of the underworld. The Sweeney are now cops without badges, and burning for revenge.
- Beginning of shooting
- Oct 01, 2011