The Long Good Friday (1980)

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"Bob Hoskins plays a well-to-do English king of the mountain mob-boss who tries to legitimately enter into the world of business. However, even with the best of intentions at heart, he soon comes to realize that, just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in again. So I guess The Long Good Friday is kinda like the British version of The Godfather Part 3. And I mean that in a good way. "

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"Home - New Aside from a pretty lousy score this is a really amazing, really brutal, British crime thriller. Hoskins is fantastic as the central protagonist and seems to be a template for the smooth talking, upwardly mobile, sleazeball heroes (and villains) of 1980s cinema."

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"Bob Hoskins He’s a feisty British fireplug, the kind of man you expect to be manning a shovel on a construction site, or managing boxers after a faded glory career all his own, not starring in major motion pictures. Still few had heard of Hoskins outside his native UK prior to his turn as Harold Shand, a gruff old school gangster who wants to go legit, with decidedly difficult results. Unusually handsome in a beefy, unmade manner, and deadly with a gesture or a word, Hoskins virtually sits at "