Overview
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
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Box office
Grossed $6.2M worldwide, about 1.6 times its $3.9M budget
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Setting
Set in London
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Lol Crawley
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Chris MorrisWriter
- Jesse ArmstrongWriter
- Sam BainWriter
- Simon BlackwellWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 7, 2010
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $3.9M
- Revenue
- $6.2M
- Countries
- United Kingdom, France
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Cast
Riz AhmedOmar
Nigel LindsayBarry
Kayvan NovakWaj
Adeel AkhtarFaisal
Arsher AliHassan
Preeya KalidasSofia
Benedict CumberbatchNegotiator
Julia DavisAlice
Craig ParkinsonMatt- Wasim ZakirAhmed
- Mohammad AqilMahmood
- Karl SethUncle Imran
Waleed ElgadiKhalid
Alex MacqueenMalcolm Storge MP
Shameem AhmadChairwoman
Jonathan MaitlandNewsreader
Marcus GarveyMarathon Policeman
Darren BoydSniper
Kevin EldonSniper- Adil Mohammed JavedNabil
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