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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: Rated or Dated: The Long Good Friday (1980)
Description: Or is it the long good objectification of a young Pierce Brosnan? Mick, Hannah and Jen are here to prove a Rated or Dated can be both, as they watch the cornerstone British gangster flick written by Barrie Keefe, directed by John Mackenzie, and which made a full-blown film star out of the late, great Bob Hoskins. He’s joined by a host of familiar faces, including Helen Mirren, in a film that’s prescient, political, tight and brutal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices