The Limey

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Awards

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Director

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Feature

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Male Lead

Independent Spirit Awards 2000- Nominated - Best Supporting Male

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Director

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Feature

Independent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Male Lead

Independent Spirit Awards 2000- Nominated - Best Supporting Male

Indepentdent Spirit Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2000 - Nominated - Best Actor

OFCS 2000 - Nominated - Best Film Editing

OFCS 2001 - Nominated - Best DVD Cmmentary

Satellite Awards 2000 - Won - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture

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The Limey

Director:
Steven Soderbergh
R, 89 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

Two actors best known for their work in the late 1960s, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, star in The Limey, a drama in which a recently released felon contemplates the gulf between aging criminals like himself and their modern counterparts. Wilson (Stamp) is a British career criminal who has been released after nine years in prison. He has learned that his daughter Jenny died under suspicious circumstances in Los Angeles, so he travels to America for the first time to find out what happened and who's responsible.

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Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:
89 min.

Genres:
Drama
Mystery / Thriller

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Tagline

Vengeance knows no boundaries. Tell Them I'M Coming

 

Plot Summary

With the help of an ex-con named Ed (Luis Guzman), Wilson discovers Jenny was romantically involved with Valentine (Fonda), a middle-aged record producer with a shady past and a fondness for young women. In hopes of getting the truth — and getting to Valentine — Wilson finds himself doing battle with some of the worst criminals to crawl from the underbelly of Los Angeles; along the way, he also meets Elaine (Lesley Ann Warren), an older actress who knew Jenny and reminds Wilson of how little he really did for his daughter while she was alive. Steven Soderbergh's first film after his commercial comeback with 1998's Out Of Sight, The Limey features, along with Stamp and Fonda, two other notable 60's actors in supporting roles, Barry Newman and Joe Dallesandro.

 

 

Memorable Quotes

Wilson: I'm looking for a different kind of satisfaction.                                                          -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[Looking into the smog] Ed: You could see the sea from here, if you could see it.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ed: Do you understand half the shit he says? 
Elaine: No, but I know what he means. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stacy: Why don't they make shows about people's daily lives you'd be interested in watching? You know, like "Sick Old Man" or "Skinny Little Weakling." "Big Fat Guy." Wouldn't you watch a show called "Big Fat Guy"? I'd watch that fucking show. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: Bide your time and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stacy: I'd tell you to blow it out your ass, but my dick's in the way. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: How you doin' then? All right, are you? Now look, squire, you're the guv'nor here, I can see that. I'm in your manor now. So there's no need to get your knickers in a twist. Whatever this bollocks is that's going down between you and that slag Valentine, it's got nothing to do with me. I couldn't care less. Alright, mate? Let me explain. When I was in prison - second time - uh, no, telling a lie, third stretch, yeah, third, third - there was this screw what really had it in for me, and that geezer was top of my list. Two years after I got sprung, I sees him in Arnold Park. He's sittin' on a bench feedin' bloody pigeons. There was no-one about, I could've gone up behind him and snapped his fuckin' neck, *wallop!* But I left it. I could've knobbled him, but I didn't. 'Cause what I thought I wanted wasn't what I wanted. What I thought I was thinkin' about was something else. I didn't give a toss. It didn't matter, see? This berk on the bench wasn't worth my time. It meant sod-all in the end, 'cause you gotta make a choice: when to do something, and when to let it go. When it matters, and when it don't. Bide your time. That's what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Head DEA Agent: There's one thing I don't understand. The thing I don't understand is every motherfuckin' word you're saying. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: You tell him, you tell him I'm coming. Tell him I'm fucking coming! 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ed: If you could afford a place like this, you'd buy a place like this. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: Can't be too careful nowadays, y'know? Lot of "tea leaves" about, know what I mean? Warehouse Foreman: Excuse me? 
Wilson: Tea leaves... thieves. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: Eddy... yeah, he's me new "china". 
Elaine: What? 
Wilson: china plate...mate. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wilson: I'm gonna 'ave a "butcher's" round the house. 
Ed Roel: Who you gonna butcher? 
Wilson: Butcher's hook... look. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Terry Valentine: Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. *That* was the sixties. [pause] No. It wasn't that either. It was just '66 and early '67. That's all there was. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Head DEA Agent: You're not from around here, are you? 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stacy: What's the smartest thing that ever came out of a woman's mouth? Einstein's cock. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[Wilson and Ed are standing by Valentine's pool] Wilson: What are we standing on? 
Ed: Trust.

 

 

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