Mr Nice, a 2010 British comedic crime film telling the true story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.
Adapted from Howard Marks' bestselling autobiography and starring top Brit actor Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, The Boat That Rocked) as Marks, this iconic tale of one man's rise and fall is brought to life. During the mid 1980's, Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity of dope dealing.
Marks began to deal during a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford University, and with the help of drug pushers (Omid Djalili Gladiator, The Mummy and Crispin Glover Back to the Future Trilogy, Beowulf) started dealing hashish throughout Europe and America in touring rock bands' equipment. The academic life began to lose its allure…