Title: Yardie
Original Title: Yardie
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: UK
- Length: 101 Minutes (1 hour 41 min)
- Genre: Crime
- Studios: Warp Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: August 31 2018
Plot
Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he's not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon.
But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow "the righteous path", he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution - a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham)
Cast
Director:
Rico
Dennis Campbell
Raggz
Mona
Tyrone
Arif
Videos
June 13 2018
Photos
Trivia
First Film by Idris Elba
With this movie the praised British actor Idris Elba jumps to the direction.
A Cinematographic Proposal
Idris Elba proposed to his girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre at a screening of the film in East London.
Screened in Berlin and Sundance
The film was first released in two of the most important film festivals in the world: Berlin (in the Panorama section) and Sundance (in the World Cinema competition).
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