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Inclusion in the film industry. Find projects backed by the BFI. Read industry research and statistics. Find out about booking film programmes internationally. Samuel Wigley Updated: 25 April James McAvoy in Welcome to the Punch. A crime film set amid the gleaming surfaces and thrusting vertical lines of Canary Wharf, it stars James McAvoy as cop Max Lewinsky, whose career has faltered after taking a bullet in his leg from gangster Jacob Sternwood Mark Strong.

When his son is injured in a heist gone wrong, Sternwood returns to London from his Icelandic hideaway, giving Lewinsky and his partner Sarah Hawks Andrea Riseborough the opportunity to settle a score. Did you find it was easier to get your second film made based on the success of Shifty? But having made a film for grand, it was tougher because we wanted to make this film for a few million.

I got offered a lot of similar films to Shifty, working within social realist drama. Infernal Affairs There is that expectation that you can go into another social realist drama in the vein of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. We won't share this comment without your permission. If you chose to provide an email address, it will only be used to contact you about your comment. See our privacy policy.

A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. The main character, a policeman, tries to kiss his female partner; she rebuffs him.

The main character is seen smoking a cigarette in one scene. What parents need to know Parents need to know that English crime thriller Welcome to the Punch the title refers to a location where the final showdown takes place has plenty of cops-and-robbers-style violence, with guns, shooting, fighting, punching, dead bodies, explosions, and some blood.

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