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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Iain Robertson, Karel Polisensky, Jake Gavin, David Walliams, Alexander Armstrong, Michael Gambon, Alan Cumming, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Neve McIntosh, Stephen Martin Walters ...MORE

Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Iain Robertson, Karel Polisensky, Jake Gavin, David Walliams, Alexander Armstrong, Michael Gambon, Alan Cumming, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Neve McIntosh, Stephen Martin Walters, Liv Tyler, Christian Camargo, Robert Carlyle, Matt Lucas, James Thornton, Terence Rigby, Ben Miller ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Adventure, Buddy Film, Costume Drama, Action, Costume Adventure, Comedy, Heist, Action/Adventure

Plunkett & Macleane is a 1999 British historical action comedy film directed by Jake Scott, and starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It follows the story of Captain James Macleane (Miller), and Will Plunkett (Carlyle), two men in eighteenth century Britain who are both struggling to survive. The characters are loosely based on two genuine highwaymen of the eighteenth century, James MacLaine and William Plunkett although the story bears little relation to their actual lives. In 1748, England is infested with highwaymen, such as Will Plunkett, a London-based criminal... MORE

Plunkett & Macleane is a 1999 British historical action comedy film directed by Jake Scott, and starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It follows the story of Captain James Macleane (Miller), and Will Plunkett (Carlyle), two men in eighteenth century Britain who are both struggling to survive. The characters are loosely based on two genuine highwaymen of the eighteenth century, James MacLaine and William Plunkett although the story bears little relation to their actual lives. In 1748, England is infested with highwaymen, such as Will Plunkett, a London-based criminal working with a partner. However, very soon into the film his partner is killed by Thief Taker General Chance, and Plunkett finds himself on the run from the local constabulary. This incident was witnessed by Captain James Macleane, who was being taken to a debtor's prison. He also sees Plunkett's partner swallow a ruby, which he sees as his ticket out of debt, and, after narrowly escaping discovery by Chance, he goes to the cemetery and tries to exhume the body and retrieve the ruby. Unknown to him, Plunkett is also waiting there, and he forces Macleane to give the ruby to him. He then also swallows LESS