Mike Leigh's Cannes-winning black comedy stars David Thewlis, Katrin Cartlidge, and Lesley Sharp in a brilliant and controversial vision of England's underbelly. Thewlis plays a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter who hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
