Haven't seen the film but apparently, these characters own a house in Stoke Newington? How deep in debt can they be?
Sell the house, move into a flat, wait for the property bubble to burst (as it always does.) Easy.
the plot seems like this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1106860/ - Ca$h.
shareWhen I first read the plot, I though of Shallow Grave. Very similar; Tennant dies, loads of cash in the room, people take it etc.
shareThat was the first movie I thought of when I read the plot outline...would be a really hard one to beat thanks to Sean Bean doing what he does best (acting not dying).
shareOMG...i was thinking the same thing...so much that it really annoyed me. sell the flat & live rent free in the fixer upper. they could use a propane stove & shower at work or the Y. so unrealistic!
shareThis was very poorly written, forensics didn't even think to look in the roof for clues seems a bit far fetched and the fact that Police wouldn't have surveillance on the drug dealer and the house is bizarre considering they knew people got screwed over. I have to say this was so poorly written I could of done ten times better on half the budget. I would fire everyone that worked on this movie.
share@scorpionplanet;
You misunderstood. The immediate scene observation and subsequent autopsy determined it was a heroine drug overdose, but there was no presumption of a larger crime at that point...so no intensive search was warranted. It was Det. Halden that wished for it, as he had suspicions about the death being connected tho the Liquid O suppliers.
"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
Haven't seen the film but apparently, these characters own a house in Stoke Newington? How deep in debt can they be?
Really?
It's not that unusual for people to financially extend themselves, especially over property.
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!
you probally dont understand the value of just the land in that part of london.
yep possibly worth 1.3 million uk- 2m us- once done up
they could have easily got 200k loan to do it up and sell on
They inherited the house upon the death of a relative.
shareIt was a dilapidated fixer-upper inherited from an older relative. Franco's character, a construction contractor, hoped to repair and renovate it, so they could eventually move into it...but it was turning out to be a real money pit and Franco's paying jobs just weren't paying enough to keep up with the renovation cost and their current rent/living expenses.
At the end, it is implied that they will likely just sell the lot and move on.
"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
The filmmakers were counting on Americans having NO CLUE about the value of land in London. It is the most expensive city in the world.
The couple is presented as "poor" when they apparently own not one, but TWO London homes, the smaller of which is in decent condition (though grunged up for the movie apparently) and they live in it (with the tenant). Heck, they haven an INCOME PRODUCING rental! Worth at least $1500 a month IN CASH -- they say the tenant paid in cash. Meaning "unreported for taxes".
The first house is worth at least $2 million -- the run down mansion at least that much even in disrepair. So basically, they are multi-millionaires.
It does not occur to them to sell nor refinance either house, and get MILLIONS. Instead, they are in a tizzy over...$200K?
They had enough money when they MOVED to London, to BUY a $2 million row house with a rental unit. So they were very wealthy in the first place.
Rather than steal a few hundred grand in DRUG MONEY, why not simply sell the house (or rent it out -- two units!) and get a nice little apartment?
This is yet another glaring example where the ultra-rich of Hollyweird have so little idea of how normal people live, or what they could ever afford, because they base it on their own ultra rich lifestyles.
@britwit: London property bubble has been going on a long time, and didn't even burst during the world wide financial crisis of the late 00s. I wouldn't want to hold my breath.