I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

British filmmaker Mike Hodges directs the crime drama I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, with a script by TV screenwriter Trevor Preston. Clive Owen plays former criminal Will Graham, who has spent the last three years as a bearded logger working in the Welsh countryside. He returns to London to discover that his drug dealer brother, Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), is dead. He sets out to get revenge on the London gangsters responsible for his brother’s death. Charlotte Rampling plays his ex-girlfriend Helen and Malcolm McDowell plays the bad guy Boad. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the World Cinema program., Thriller about a former gangster who returns to London after a lengthy period of self-exile to find his brother has just committed suicide following a rape by a wealthy car dealer. Determined to avenge his sibling’s death, he slowly evolves again into a formidable criminal to track down those responsible., Director Mike Hodges (“Croupier”) reunites with star Clive Owen for this dark, highly stylized British thriller about a former mobster who leaves his peaceful life in the countryside and returns to London to avenge the mysterious death of his brother., Will Graham is a former assassin, who has left that life and the city behind for the tranquility of country living. When his younger brother Davey turns up dead of a suicide, he returns to the city to find out why, pulling him back into the gangster world that he tried so hard to leave behind.