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Best Laid Plans - review

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Two assured performances illuminate David Blair's film, which relocates John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men to today's Nottingham.

Stephen Graham plays George, a small-time crook who gets into trouble with the local drug dealer and persuades his powerful but simple-minded companion (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) into illegal bare-knuckle boxing to clear his debts.

Realist in tone, the film lacks much imagination and trundles along too predictably
for comfort.

Best Laid Plans
Cert: cert12

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