High Heels and Low Lifes

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2001 "They're not bad girls. They're just behaving that way."
High Heels and Low Lifes
High Heels and Low Lifes

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6.1 | 1h26m | R | en | Action

A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.

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6.1 | 1h26m | R | en | More Info
Released: July. 16,2001 | Released Producted By: Fragile Films , Touchstone Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.

Genre

Crime

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Cast

Darren Boyd

Director

Roger Bowles

Producted By

Fragile Films

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Roger Bowles
Roger Bowles

Art Direction

Michael Pickwoad
Michael Pickwoad

Production Design

John Greaves
John Greaves

Storyboard Artist

Steven Chivers
Steven Chivers

Director of Photography

Peter Wignall
Peter Wignall

Steadicam Operator

Jany Temime
Jany Temime

Costume Design

Claire Finlay-Thompson
Claire Finlay-Thompson

Wardrobe Supervisor

Alistair Hopkins
Alistair Hopkins

Post Production Supervisor

Mel Smith
Mel Smith

Director

Emma Griffiths
Emma Griffiths

Second Assistant Director

Matthew Tucker
Matthew Tucker

Assistant Editor

Jens Baylis
Jens Baylis

Assistant Editor

Chris Blunden
Heidi Freeman
Heidi Freeman

First Assistant Editor

Deborah Aquila
Sam Chandley
Sam Chandley

Casting Assistant

Barnaby Thompson

High Heels and Low Lifes Audience Reviews 2w436t

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made
Inclubabu Plot so thin, it es unnoticed.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
blanche-2 "High Heels and Low Lifes" is a British comedy from 2001 starring Minnie Driver and Mary McCormack as friends who become involved in a robbery and decide to take matters into their own hands.Driver plays a nurse, Shannon, and McCormack is her actress friend s. Finding out about a robbery nearby, they decide to blackmail the robbers for $2 million. The gang is led by Kevin McNally and Michael Gambon.It's much more convoluted and fun than I've just described. I only gave it a 7 because it actually could have been a TV movie. However, it's so darn funny, and everyone in it is great. I had never seen the prolific McCormack in comedy; she's excellent. Minnie Driver looks great and is hilarious -- the two make a wonderful team. I wish they had turned this into a series.It's on Netflix - if you like the type of comedies that were done in the '80s before everything appealed to the lowest common denominator, this is for you.
FlashCallahan Two best girlfriends living in London suddenly find themselves battling wits with seasoned criminals when they decide to blackmail the culprits of a bank heist in their neighbourhood rather than reporting the crime to the police.Refusing to be played by this new competition and give up the demanded £1 million, the leaders of the gang of robbers decide to start playing dirty tricks, threaten violence and counterfeit money in an effort to throw the two women off course.......This is one of those films that I being d at the cinema, being on there for a week and disappearing without a trace. Ten years on and it pops up on sky movies at an ungodly hour.An undeserved failure when released, one feels that this suffered due to the fact that it looked too much like a 'Lock, Stock' rip off, which at the time were a dime a dozen. so i guess the public steered clear, which is a shame because despite all it's flaws, it's a very entertaining film thanks to the energy given by McCormack. Driver plays the straight woman to her mad woman and gets sidelined in the proceedings, just looking very pretty.Plans go wrong and get worse, and the film is ably ed by some great comic talent, good settings and Danny Dyer, when he wasn't an annoying cockney villain.The leads are ferocious and give the film their all, and one feels that this wouldn't have worked be it two other actresses. If you can find this gem anywhere, watch it, it's a cracking little movie.
btm1 Takes place in England. Shannon (Minnie Driver) is a nurse who evicts her boyfriend because he pays her no attention, even on her birthday. He is instead infatuated with electronic eavesdropping on other people's wireless conversations from which he collects snippets for some kind of artistic project he has in mind. s (Mary McCormack), Shannon's best friend, is a struggling actor with a talent for changing her voice and accent. One of my favorite scene has s repeating a line for a cartoon using different voices and styles at the behest of the director. Fooling around with audio equipment of Shannon's boyfriend after getting drunk, they hear burglars in the act of robbing a bank on Shannon's street. They know it is on Shannon's street because they her a police car out there window at the same time they her the burglars discussing it. They go to the police while the robbery is in progress, but the harried officer on the desk treats them as a couple of nuts. The next day, when they hear newscast reports of the burglary, rather than going to the police again they decide to blackmail the crooks, based on names and a phone number they overheard, for a portion of the loot. The crooks turn out to be part of a sophisticated gang. The story continues with the girls clumsily trying to get a money "drop" from the burglars, and the burglars trying to find and eliminate whoever has been ing them about the burglary. Minnie Driver looks very cute, the acting is fine, and the film is fun to watch. However, the plot has major problems that require the girls to do things that are stupider then the girls appear to be, such as not going to the police again once they learn how dangerous the bad guys are. At one time the crooks are in a gun battle with the girls, who are using an arsenal of fully automatic weapons they stole from the crooks. The girls have the bad guys totally out gunned, but Shannon insists that s give her a chance to use an assault rifle, which she has never used and turns out can't control. That childish behavior is not consistent with her character. SPOILER - The film never explains how s was not shot when Shannon repeatedly shoots her with one of the bad guy's weapon. Nor does it explain how Shannon, who is acting dead in the same room as the other players, somehow steals a large arsenal from the crook's weapons storage and gets outside behind a hedge before the others exit. It also isn't explicit about what happens to Kerrigan, the "Don" of the gang, at the end. It also doesn't explain why the police stop looking for the two attractive girls who reported the crime while it was in progress. - SPOILERI would have rated it higher if not for all those goofs, because I did find it enjoyable.
timsmith37 The direction from Mel Smith is pedestrian at best, and the plot falls between two stools, being neither farcical nor plausible. Rather than being swept up in events, the female protagonists doggedly pursue a reckless course of action without adequate motivation. The cartoon violence, in which despite hails of bullets no-one actually gets killed, contributes to the lack of edge. We never really care about the heroines, because we never feel they are actually in any danger. A further problem is Mary McCormack, who just does not have the comic chops to carry off the demands placed on her. One would have hoped in any case that British cinema had got beyond the point of importing Hollywood C-listers in the forlorn hope of sales across the Pond. It might have been interesting to see what a talented British comedienne, such as Jane Horrocks or Sally Phillips, could have done with the role. The jolie laide Minnie Driver puts in an acceptable performance in a less demanding role, without doing anything to suggest that a career in comedy lies before her. Michael Gambon lends some much needed menace as a camp East End gangster, and Kevin McNally and Len Collin astutely play it straight as the heavies, but for laughs the film relies on the comic coppers, Mark Williams, as the acerbic inspector, and Kevin Eldon as his property price obsessed sergeant. Other familiar Brit faces, such as Hugh Bonneville, Paul Bown and Julian Wadham, do the best they can with blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameos. It is harmless enough way to an hour and a half, and will raise the occasional smile, but you will find yourself easily distracted.