Hard Men is a British

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 gangster movie, originally shown 28 October 1996 at the London Film Festival

London Film Festival

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. It was released in the cinemas in 1997

1997 in film

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The plot resolves around three friends: Bear, Speed and Tone working as debt collectors

Repossession

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on behalf of Pops Den (Mad Frank Fraiser). Tone discovers he has a baby daughter and Pops Den believes this has made him go soft, so he orders Bear and Speed to kill Tone and to deliver his hand at 9am the next day. The story takes you through the fears that Bear and Speed have while trying to think of a way of killing Tone. However, while Bear and Speed keep the assassination under cover and pretend like nothing is going on, Tone knows all along what is going on and a plot thickens of his own. The three friends enjoy the last night together. Forever.