Fast Food (1999 film)

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Fast Food
Directed by Stewart Sugg
Written byStewart Sugg
Produced byPhil Hunt
Starring Gerard Butler
Sean Hughes
Graham Turner
Douglas Henshall
Emily Woof
Miles Anderson
Danny Midwinter
Stephen Lord
Release dates
  • October 9, 1998 (1998-10-09)(IFFMH)
  • January 28, 2000 (2000-01-28)(United Kingdom)
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Fast Food is a 1998 British film starring Gerard Butler and written and directed by Stewart Sugg. [1] [2]

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Plot

Benny returns to the town of his youth to find the girl he's loved since childhood and runs into his four old criminal friends who have plans to rob a local gangster.

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References

  1. Elley, Derek (15 June 1998). "Review: 'Fast Food'". Variety . Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  2. Bhob Stewart (2015). "Fast Food". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 11 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.