Layer Cake

About Layer Cake

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

Layer Cake (2004) is a crime thriller film directed by Matthew Vaughn. Daniel Craig stars as XXXX, Sienna Miller as Tammy, Tom Hardy as Clarkie, and Colm Meaney as Gene.

Released in September 2004, it runs 105 minutes. Written by J.J. Connolly. The film began as a novel.

Shelv files it under cocaine, drug trafficking, drug smuggling, and mission of murder. In the United States it streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 2,477 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Killing Them Softly, The Silence of the Lambs, and Léon: The Professional make useful companions to Layer Cake, all filed under gangster, hitman, and murder.