yardie
- Release Date
- August 31, 2018
- Director
- Idris Elba
- Cast
- Antwayne Eccleston , Fraser James , Aml Ameen , Rayon McLean , Mark Smith , Sheldon Shepherd
- Runtime
- 101
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Victor Headley , Brock Norman Brock , Martin Stellman
- Tagline
- Choose your own path
Summary
Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centers on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen; 2013 Screen International’s Brits to Watch), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he hasn't seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow "the righteous path", he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution - a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
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