The Driver

2014

The Driver

6.9 | en | Drama

The Driver is a three-part British crime drama serial aired on BBC One between 23 September and 7 October 2014. Written by Danny Brocklehurst and directed by Jamie Payne, it stars David Morrissey as despondent cab driver Vince McKee, whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to be the driver for a criminal gang.

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EP1 Part 1

Sep. 23,2014

Depressed cab driver Vince McKee—bored with his job with its ghastly fares, out of love with wife Ros, and disrespected by his schoolgirl daughter Katie—encounters Colin Vine, an old friend just released from incarceration for armed robbery. Ros detests him, but Vince takes up his invitation to play poker at the house of a man known as The Horse. The Horse offers Vince a cryptic and clearly illegal driving job, though it does come with a smart new car. The first two jobs go well, albeit not entirely without incident. The next, however, is far more sinister, as Colin attacks a man and bundles him into the boot.

EP2 Part 2

Sep. 30,2014

Vince is horrified to see Colin throw his victim into a pit, though Colin tells him he should be happy to be earning extra money. Early the next morning, Vince rescues the man and drops him off at casualty, claiming to have found him in the road before driving off. Ros becomes suspicious of blood on her husband's shirt but he flees her interrogation by making an unannounced visit to their estranged son Tim, who has joined a sect. Upon return, Vince is visited by police, who tell him that the man he saved, Joseph Paslowski, is a dangerous gangster. He goes to see The Horse, whose men are punishing Colin for apparently failing to kill Paslowski

EP3 Part 3

Oct. 07,2014

With Paslowski now out of his coma, the police visit Vince again. After visiting the badly injured Colin and asking to leave the gang, he tries to bribe a colleague to give him an alibi but Kev squeals and Vince is arrested. He confesses everything and is offered a deal — to carry on working undercover and inform the police of their next planned job, the robbery of a Chinese supermarket. The McKees are put under witness protection and given new identities, angering Ros and Katie. Preparing for the robbery, Vince is amazed to see that Colin will be taking part and tells him to back out as the police will be waiting. Everything goes to plan and Vince hears from Tim that he wants to come home. Does this signal an end to the nightmare for the driver or are he and his family still in danger?

6.9 | en | Drama , Crime | More Info

Released: 2014-09-23 | Released Producted By: Red Production Company , Highfield Grange Studios Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jtk4m

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Drama , Crime

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Cast

David Morrissey , Claudie Blakley , Ian Hart , Harish Patel , Sacha Parkinson , Lee Ross

Director

Katy Tuxford

Producted By

Red Production Company , Highfield Grange Studios

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David Morrissey

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Claudie Blakley

as Rosalind McKee

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Ian Hart

as Colin Vine

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Sacha Parkinson

as Katie McKee

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Lee Ross

as Kev Mitchell

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Katy Tuxford

Art Direction

Candida Otton

Production Design

David Luther

Director of Photography

Rhona Russell

Costume Design

Jamie Payne

Director

Oral Norrie Ottey

Editor

Rachel Freck

Casting Director

Daniel Brocklehurst

Executive Producer

Polly Hill

Executive Producer

David Morrissey

Executive Producer

Nicola Shindler

Executive Producer

Alison Loose

Line Producer

Jolyon Symonds

Producer

Lorne Balfe

Original Music Composer

Daniel Brocklehurst

Writer

The Driver Audience Reviews

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

sebadee Life is tough for troubled muggle, Vince McKee (David Morrissey). No bed of roses at home and finding it tough making a living as a cabbie in Manchester's rain-drenched streets. His fares either puke on his seats then don't pay or they have no cash and steal his day's earnings. This all changes when Mickey (Ian Hart) - just out after a six year stretch inside - suggests Vince does some driving for his gangster boss, Horse (Colm Meaney). Things start to go belly up soon after as he realizes there's no way back from a life in crime.With so many tough acts to follow - Sherlock, The Fall, Broadchurch, Utopia, etc - The Driver really needs deliver something unexpected to help it stand out; this it roundly fails to do. It manages to be adequate in all domains: The dialogue, the plot, the direction, the camera-work, the performances, the action are all good though there's nothing that jumps off the screen. That said, there are two stand-out performances: Sacha Parkinson as Vince's daughter and Harish Patel as Vince's minicab boss.David Morrissey's character grows ever more annoying as he dithers between his lives at home and in crime. In a way, he's morally gray: He's unable to invest himself in normal family life and clearly not cut out to be a criminal. His big problem is he's just not that interesting, nor are his reactions to criminality very compelling. His best moment comes when he tries to recontact his estranged son who is living in a commune. We get a brief glimpse of fire amongst barely glowing embers.With a series called The Driver it's hard not to look for references to Nicolas Winding Refn's superb "Drive", but there are none. Although there is nothing much to remember about The Driver, the action sequences are well-handled and there are some nifty camera moves in Vince's car. The big question that this miniseries leaves you with is why oh why would a competent gangster trust the job of getaway driver to a civilian cab driver who's scared witless?

paul2001sw-1 David Morrisey (over-)emotes his way through 'The Driver', the story of an ordinary man who gets caught up with organised crime. As you do. And the problem with this drama is that Morrisey's character is wildly under-motivated for his actions, yet acts as if he a victim of unavoidable circumstances. Does a law-abiding taxi driver who runs into an old mate just out of prison suddenly decide to become a criminal himself? Is it really likely that on his first job, fetching and carrying for a gang, he nearly gets stopped by the police? Or that he gets called out to his new work every time his wife is about to make nice with him? And what really is the chance that, at key moment in an armed robbery (which is also a police sting), he feels compelled to flee the scene to take the last chance he'll ever get to see his son again? In some ways, it should be an easy story to tell, there are many temptations which lead people to be drawn into things which prove worse than they'd expected. But the driver seems to get no pay-off, and only immediate pain, for his inexplicable choice. The result is an unenlightening morality tale, with the odd gripping moment but too much anguish and not enough sense.

Tweekums Taxi driver Vince McKee isn't having the best of times; he is working every night but still isn't earning enough money and the job is utterly depressing. Then his old friend Colin returns after a stretch in prison and is soon trying to get Vince a 'job'. At first he refuses but soon he is working for 'The Horse'; he is just delivering packages but the pay is good and his family are happy, although they don't know where the money is coming from. The Horse always calls before a job but one day Colin turns up saying he is needed; it turns out Colin is to kidnap a rival criminal, beat him and leave him to die. Vince can't cope with that so returns later and takes the severely injured man to hospital. This leads to Colin getting a beating and Vince fearing for his life it looks as if the only way out for him is to work for the police; crossing The Horse will be incredibly dangerous though.This series got off to a great start as we see Vince driving aggressively to get away from pursuing police we then flash back to see how he got to that point. The story isn't the most original but it is told in a way that keeps the viewer gripped; right until the final credits began I was unsure what would happen to Vince. This is down to the fine performances; particularly from David Morrissey who plays Vince, the ordinary man in an extraordinary situation and Colm Meaney who plays the menacing Horse. The fact that the series is only three episodes long means there is no time for padding; even the apparently irrelevant subplot involving Vince's son who has joined a cult proves relevant in the end. Overall this was well worth watching; it is probably even better if you watch all three episodes in one go.

Heath Hansbro i really enjoy this show and i hope to see more of it it will be a sad day if they choose not to continue the series it has amazing potential and its full suspense/action IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT YOU NEED TO its a total different spin from the main character being a super villain crazy person from the walking dead to a amazing caring worried father/husband just trying his hardest to make their life better and getting mixed up with the wrong people to do so meanwhile trying to keep them all out of it and burring the horrible stuff behind him i give this show a 8/10 just try it and prey it keeps going and thrills us every episode <3333