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Plot: Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.
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MCT:June 4, 2008Strong directorial film debut by Danny Boyle makes the most of it's simple premise. 3 roommates, a bag of cash and a lot of paranoia spiral out of control.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
In my opinion, this is Danny Boyle's most succesful work as a whole. Coherent story which keeps it's tension to the very end, great mood and accomplished perfomances from all three main characters. This can be seen, along with Trainspotting (Also by Boyle), as one of the pioneer-films of new era of filmmaking. Highly enjoyable!
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MCT:April 8, 2008Exellent acting, exellent stroyline, exllent angles and the music at the end really suit's the climax. I am un-able to give this anything less than 5 stars.
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MCT:January 28, 2008
It's the film Danny Boyle made before Trainspotting! A well done movie, but I'm not really a thriller movies guy. But it's well directed and the story is interesting. I would say that it's about how money can change your friendships. Funny ending also!
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MCT:January 20, 2008Great movie! Eccleston and McGregor are fantastic! A great storyline that holds much intrigue and mystery as you continue to watch throughout.
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MCT:January 15, 2008
sanirim en cok izledigim film bu. arkadaslar iyidir onlara ihtiyacimiz var. ama ya bir gun onlara guvenemeyeceginizi ogrenirseniz?
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MCT:January 5, 2008This was a slow but interesting movie that plays on trust issues these three characters have with each other.
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MCT:January 4, 2008
Great story with somewhat unusual characters. Boyle makes a seamless transition between genres and the actors shine, especially Eccleston.
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MCT:January 1, 2008
Very interesting movie, near the end it gets a little bizar, but ewan mcgregor is fit for this part.
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MCT:December 15, 2007
A great modern thriller about how far can three friends go for the money. The flick contains all the necessary ingredients of a decent suspense story: constantly growing tension, sly humor and a plot twist.
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MCT:November 24, 2007
Danny Boyle's debut. A cool, wicked, suspenseful, bloody tale about greed and reliance among friends. clever narration, wonderful performances.
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MCT:November 5, 2007Plot: The first feature from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (who went on to make the enormously popular Trainspotting, the not-so-well-received A Life Less Ordinary, and The Beach), Shallow Grave begins with three obnoxious roommates mockingly interrogating applicants who want to share their spacious flat. The guy they finally choose doesn't last long--they find him dead from a drug overdose along with a suitcase full of money that he no longer needs. They decide to keep the money; this of course requires that they discreetly dispose of the body, which proves to be a gruesome, traumatic business. They begin to suspect each other of betrayal and become increasingly deranged. The movie wants to be a satirical comment on the greed of British yuppies but is more an exercise in stylish paranoia, where the color of the walls matters more than why the characters behave the way they do. The clever cinematography and macabre humor make Shallow Grave worth watching, just don't expect to like anyone in it. Starring the very hip trio of Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table, The Last Days of Chez Nous), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace), and Christopher Eccleston (Jude, Elizabeth). --Bret Fetzer
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MCT:October 28, 2007i thikn ive seen this i think its where they have a dead lodger in there room and dunno wot to do then end up burying him i thoght it was really boring and pointless
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MCT:October 21, 2007
Great film, i saw it after trainspotting, so I wasnt as impressed, mainley as Ewan McGregor looks like a Scottish Hugh Grant in it, with his long foppish fringe and YUPPY style, but if you can forget that bad image for Ewan its a really great thriller. Eccleston is brilliant in it as an ordinary man gone mad, and his performance in this film showed everyone how great an actor he is!!!
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MCT:October 13, 2007
Three flatmates are searching for a fourth. When they finally decide on one, he is there for a whole day before he dies. What he leaves behind is the focus of this DARK comedy.
It is very British, but I liked it. It was sick. And as you know, sick is my thing. The roommates turn out to be somewhat evil in their treatment of each other. I love the social interaction in this movie.
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MCT:October 9, 2007
I remember watching this when it first came out and I enjoyed it, it was another wierd one.but thats me yet again always liking the odd and wierd flicks.
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MCT:October 9, 2007
I gotta sit down and watch this one again. I remember the first handful of scenes were a bit look-between-the-fingers stuff!
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MCT:September 16, 2007
Not bad, but he never explains the ending, how does he get away with it? Don't film it if you cant explain it.
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MCT:September 14, 2007
debut from danny boyle(trainspotting) and his firt of 3 with ewan mcgregor, 3 flatmates get a new lodger, but he dies the 1st night, leaving a suitcase of mon ey behind, there dilema, what do they do, they decide to hide thed body, and keep money, big mistake, great film depicting friendship going wrong due to greed, and having to keep a secret, a great thriller, black comedy, and a very good early performance from mcgregor, and christopher echlestone.
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MCT:September 11, 2007
This is an extremely tense, well-crafted thriller. Danny Boyle's storytelling skills are endlessly impressive, and this one is almost as engaging as Trainspotting. Written and directed with a great deal of intelligence and narrative instinct. It's an extremely dark and morbid story, but Boyle strays away from any obvious tone cliches.
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MCT:August 12, 2007
I really became a Danny Boyle fan after this one. It's so bad that he made later a crappy film like The Beach
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MCT:August 7, 2007
It was like a UK version of a Coen Brothers movie and I loved it. It was dark, funny and intense. If you happen to find a suitcase full of money one day, folks, just ignore it, cause according to the movies it fucks up your life.
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