Pusher

"Bookies. Junkies. Gangsters. Cops. Snitches. All in a week's work."

Oct 15 2010 N/A 1h 47m
Action, Crime, Drama

A desperate drug-pusher must avoid police, and find money to pay-off a huge debt.

Plot

Salim, a drug pusher, has a girlfriend, Anita, and a close friend in Kabir in 1999 Leicester. He is also friendly with a drug-dealer, Davar, and owes him 6000 Pounds. When Davar wants the money back, Salim asks him for narcotics worth around 30,000 Pounds, which Davar provides, but makes it conditional that Salim return all money owing immediately. When Salim attempts to sell the narcotics, he is chased by the Police, and loses them in a pond. He spends a night in a Police Cell, and finds out that he was betrayed bu Kabir but is released there is no evidence to hold him. Davar is enraged, and wants his money back and instructs his henchman, Kabir, to ensure that Salim returns the money at any and all costs. Amidst heavy betting on Cricket World Cup, he attempts to assist Anita, avoids Davar, viciously assaults Kabir, and goes for financial help to his estranged mother, who he has not visited for several years, even though he recalls that she had asked him to leave after blaming him for the shooting death of his father. Will she help him now?

Written by

Jens Dahl, Assad Raja, Nicolas Winding Refn

Directed by

Assad Raja

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Embargo Films, Vertigo Films

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
798
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA