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It takes one pirate to play another in Bernard Rose’s adaptation of Howard Marks’ autobiography. Rhys Ifans skins up admirably depicting the Welshman’s progress from humble origins to global hash domination. Dumping teaching, Marks swiftly discovers how lucrative – and easy – the drugs trade can be when he does a favour for a mate by sneaking a load back from Germany. Soon he’s off to Pakistan for ‘testing’ purposes and hooking up with the IRA to bring it all home. Naturally it all ends in jail. Rose advances the current vogue for spicing up biopics by matching the look of his film to fit the period making the film suitably nostalgic. Watch out for David Thewlis as a porno loving terrorist!