In what year is Layer Cake set?

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Layer Cake was released in 2004. There is a lot of criminal activity going on in London (most surveilled city in the world) and no one is getting caught. In what year is this supposed to have taken place?



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I think the film is set in at least 2003 and the plot wasn't affected much by the 6-year difference between the book and the film just certain things like cars and phones were adapted. Also, bear in mind that the accountant uses a not too ancient looking computer. Eddie temple's 2003 registration Bentley Arnage:

Eddie temple's Bentley Arnage

The Range Rover used: I believe this is a 1998 number plate and I can more or less see S628 CRO which uses the S prefix for 1990's registrations.Bear in mind that these are the wannabes and probably just bought an older model of a flashy car to seem more affluent.Number plate guide Layer cake range rover Bentley release dates

This phone that looks closer to 2003 type phone than 1997, however, someone may correct me in the comments as I believe a 1997 nokia could have a similar colour and design, however, a lot of phones in 1997 were black. Layer cake phone




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Where does Layer Cake occur?

The film's plot revolves around a London-based criminal, played by Daniel Craig, who works in the cocaine trade and wishes to leave the drug business.

Is Layer Cake based on a true story?

\u201cA lot of people claim that it's based on them, and there's a degree of truth in that but actually they were composites of people I'd met and stories people had told me. You'd meet guys at the football and places like that, and you kind of knew they were up to stuff, but they were very low key, very un-showy.

Who made Layer Cake?

In 2000, JJ Connolly's debut novel, Layer Cake, was published and the world was introduced to The Narrator, a cocky 29-year-old unnamed protagonist who inhabited a pulpy world of cocaine dealers, pornographers, neo-Nazis and Dobermanns.

What is the building in Layer Cake?

Stoke Park has served as the filming location for several major films, including James Bond's Goldfinger and Tomorrow Never Dies, Bridget Jones's Diary and Layer Cake.



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Answer 2

The hit man that's learning French, is obviously a big fan of Leon the professional which was released in 1995, so around this time fits well for me.

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