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High Heels and Low Lifes

2001 · 86 min

A breezy, cheeky caper that mixes light laughs with mild thrills as two friends bumble through a blackmail scheme.

Directed by
Mel Smith
Genres
Action, Crime, Comedy
Tagline
They're not bad girls. They're just behaving that way.
Overview
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.

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Directed by
Mel Smith
Genres
Action, Crime, Comedy
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • crime
  • greed
  • class
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror0
Humour7
Realism5
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
action, crime, comedy
Directed by
Mel Smith
Written by
Kim Fuller
Starring
Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Kevin McNally, Danny Dyer, Michael Gambon, Darren Boyd, Mark Williams, Simon Scardifield
Music
Charlie Mole
Cinematography
Steven Chivers
Runtime
86 min
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
English

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