![]() Layer Cake is an entertaining British crime noir movie from the makers of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. This movie is very much a product of its time, and while its enjoyable, it doesn't quite stand out from similar movies of that era. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. This movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn, who also directed Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and the gritty noir fast-paced style of Layer Cake is in a similar vein. Characters shown having sex in one scene (no nudity), and sounds of people having sex as a character is shown watching a pornographic movie. There's violence throughout, including a scene in which a man beats another man to a bloody pulp in a diner, then finishes the job by pouring the contents of a boiling hot tea kettle on his face. The title of the movie is a reference to one of the character's philosophy of life, in which most people are born in "s-t" and try to climb out of these layers until they no longer smell it. Constant profanity, including "f-k" frequently used, as well as racial slurs for Pakistanis and people of color. ![]() ![]() There's considerable drug use, including cocaine, and a central part of the plot is a stolen shipment of Ecstasy pills. Parents need to know that Layer Cake is a 2004 British action-crime movie in which Daniel Craig plays a cocaine distributor caught in a web of deceit involving kidnapping and stolen drugs. ![]()
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