A downtrodden small-time crook gets a job as bodyguard and chauffeur to an emotionally bruised call girl, whom he gradually falls in love with. She in turn persuades him to help her save a teenage prostitute from her pimp, a goal that leads to conflict with a brutal gangster. Writer/director Neil Jordan's romantic crime thriller, starring a Bafta-winning Bob Hoskins, with Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane and Kate Hardie.
