Mr Nice

2010/ UK/ 121 mins/ Dir. Bernard Rose
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis

Mr Nice. 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, 25 companies worldwide and over one million books sold. Among his associates are members of the Mafia, CIA, IRA and MI6. Nuclear physicist, marijuana connoisseur, school teacher, money launderer, gentleman, fugitive and spy; raconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science, rock promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet… meet Howard Marks, A.K.A Mr. Nice.

From the small town of Kenfig in South Wales to Oxford University, Germany, London, Ireland, Pakistan, Amsterdam, Thailand, Ibiza, Majorca, Manila, America and jail we follow Howard’s prodigious rise. And fall.

A frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal story based on Howard Mark’s autobiography and life so far.