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Mona Lisa(1986)
Status: Released
Date: 1986-06-13
69%
285 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
Sometimes love is a strange and wicked game.
Overview:
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Revenue: $5,794,184.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Palace Productions
Movie: Mona Lisa
Top 10 Billed Cast
Bob Hoskins
George
Cathy Tyson
Simone
Michael Caine
Mortwell
Robbie Coltrane
Thomas
Clarke Peters
Anderson
Kate Hardie
Cathy
Zoë Nathenson
Jeannie
Sammi Davis
May
Joe Brown
Self
Pauline Melville
George's Wife
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