51st State

• 14+
• 92 min
• 2001
• Canada
• English
• Directed by Ronny Yu

• Robert Carlyle,
• Samuel L. Jackson,
• Meat Loaf,
• Emily Mortimer

Elmo McElroy is a kilt-wearing, golf club-wielding Los Angeles native who has invented an illegal drug formula that he hopes will provide him with a last major score of $20 million before he retires from a life of crime. He travels to Liverpool, England, where he hopes to find a buyer for his creation among the denizens of the city's rave scene, but his plans go awry when those who are in on the deal start turning up dead. Elmo's only protector is a chain-smoking, Yank-hating local hood, who reluctantly partners with the violence-prone American to finish the deal and cash in, sparking a gang war...

• Action
• Comedy
• Crime