Love, Honour And Obey

Starring: Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 30th October, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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It must have seemed like fun at the time: a group of mates got together to play gangsters, ran around Londons streets waving guns, dishing out beatings & shouting profanities at the top of their mockney lungs. Its the kind of game that any group of lads with a camcorder & a six-pack might indulge in on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, these particular mates happen to be famous, so the result, Love, Honour & Obey, actually saw the dark of cinemas.

Ray Winstone is Ray, head honcho of a North London crime outfit; Sean Pertwee is Sean, leader of the South London pack. Their organisations co-exist with a minimum of fuss, based on respect for each others turf. Then Rays nephew, Jude , introduces his mate, Jonny , into the firm & the equilibrium goes up in gun smoke. Jonnys a hothead who disrespects Rays rules & instigates a private feud with Matthew , his opposite number in Seans gang, & soon there are gun battles raging through the capital.

Perhaps directors Dominic Anciano & Ray Burdis regard their work as avant-garde, a deconstruction of the movie-making myth or a dissection of genre, or maybe they are just having a laugh at our expense. Either way the result is tortuous, egotistical film making. To be fair, Love, Honour & Obey is at least a step up from their last effort, Final Cut, in which much the same cast again paraded under their own names & made utter fools of themselves, but thats like saying the Zeebrugge ferry disaster wasnt as bad as the Titanic. Still, at least its not all boys playing with their penis extensions: theres also Sadie Frost & Denise Van Outen.

Raymond Andrew Winstone, better known as Ray Winstone, is a British actor. He met his wife, Elaine, while filming That Summer ; they have three daughters. As a boy, Winstone trained as a boxer. He won the London Schoolboy Championship three times & twice represented England. After leaving school he gave up boxing & studied drama at Corona School in Hammersmith, where he spent one year before being asked to leave. Winstone talked his way into an audition with the BBC for a 1977 play called Scum. He was cast in a leading role, but the play was judged unsuitable by the BBC & was not shown until 1991. In 1979, the play was turned into a film, with Winstone playing a tough newcomer to a borstal. Winstones role in Scum seems to have set a mould for many of his other parts; he is frequently cast as a tough or violent man. His film roles have included parts in Quadrophenia, That Summer, Ladybird Ladybird, Nil by Mouth, Face, Sexy Beast & Ripleys Game. Winstone has also been cast against type in some films in which he reveals a softer side. Posters Of Ray Winstone

Editors Choice: Ripleys Game, Sexy Beast, The Proposition, Face, Shes Gone, Final Cut, Henry Viii, Nil By Mouth, View DVDology

Sadie Frost, is a British actress, is probably best known for her marriage to British actor Jude Law which has made her a staple of the tabloids. She co-owns the fashion label FrostFrench. Along with Patsy Kensit she is a regular feature of tabloid & gossip magazine coverage but is better known for her series of high profile relationships than her own film & television work. She has been married twice. Her first husband was Spandau Ballet s Gary Kemp & her second husband, with whom she had three children, was Jude Law. She divorced Jude in 2003. Posters Of An Ideal Husband

Editors Choice: Final Cut, Presence Of Mind, Captain Jack, Shopping, An Ideal Husband, View DVDology

Dominic Anciano is a British actor, writer, producer & director. His first notable work was Philip Ridley s The Reflecting Skin where he was one of four production staff including Jim Beach, Dian Roberts & Ray Burdis. Since then, his own career & that of Ray Burdis have developed side-by-side. They were hired as co-producers for The Krays, also written by Phil Ridley. In 1995, Phil Ridley s production due returned to work on his film The Passion of Darkly Moon. Co-financed by the UK, Germany & Belgium this film attracted big American stars in the form of Brendan Fraser & Ashley Judd but failed to impress critics. 1995 also saw Burdis & Anciano step away from the Ridley fold to work on Stephen Norrington s Death Machine, where they also made cameo appearances as corpses is a restaurant. In 1997, both turned to their own creations - jointly writing, directing, producing & starring in the TV series Operation Good Guys. Anciano appeared as Sgt. Dominic de Sade & Burdis appeared as Det. Sgt. Ash. In 1998 & 2000, Anciano & Burdis produced two films, Final Cut & Love, Honour & Obey.

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