DVD Review

The Long Good Friday (2006)

Reviewed by Chris Nashawaty | Apr 07, 2006

Chris Nashawaty

Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column

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Details Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Apr 04, 2006; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren

Hoskins has played his share of Cockney toughs over the years, but his East End crime boss Harold Shand is every bit as menacing and mythic as Al Pacino's Michael Corleone. Whether cooing to his posh girlfriend (Helen Mirren) or stabbing a traitorous underling in the neck with a broken whiskey bottle, Hoskins is pure fire. It's the signature performance in a criminally underappreciated career.

EXTRAS
Not included on an earlier edition of The Long Good Friday: a Cockney slang dictionary (brown bread = ''dead'') and a featurette highlighted by Pierce Brosnan talking about his film debut as a silent IRA hitman.

Originally posted Apr 07, 2006 Published in issue #872 Apr 14, 2006 Order article reprints

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