Smack and Thistle

Smack and Thistle

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 20, 1991

Runtime

1h 30m

Original Title

Smack and Thistle

Production Companies

Working Title Films

Director

Tunde Ikoli

Description

With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.