Facebook Twitter Pinterest
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20. Details
Only 1 left in stock.
Sold by A ENTERTAINMENT and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Shiner [DVD] [2001] has been added to your Basket
+ £1.26 UK delivery
Used: Very Good | Details
Sold by zoverstocks by musicMagpie
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comment: Buy with confidence from a huge UK seller with over 3 million feedback ratings, all items despatched next day directly from the UK. All items are quality guaranteed.

Other Sellers on Amazon
Add to Basket
£2.90
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: best_value_entertainment
Add to Basket
£3.26
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: Amazon
Add to Basket
£6.30
& FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20.00. Details
Sold by: figswigs
26 used & new from £0.01
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Shiner [DVD] [2001]

Get £1 Off Amazon Video*

Michael Caine (Actor), Martin Landau (Actor), John Irvin (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
4 out of 5 stars 13 customer reviews
Want it delivered to Germany - Mainland by tomorrow, 14 Apr.? Order within 7 hrs 1 min and choose One-Day Delivery at checkout. Details
Sold by A ENTERTAINMENT and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Note: This item is eligible for click and collect. Details
Pick up your parcel at a time and place that suits you.
  • Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK
  • Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost
How to order to an Amazon Pickup Location?
  1. Find your preferred location and add it to your address book
  2. Dispatch to this address when you check out
Learn more
17 new from £1.00 8 used from £0.01 1 collectible from £11.98

LOVEFiLM By Post

Rent Shiner on DVD from LOVEFiLM By Post
£2.89 & FREE Delivery in the UK on orders over £20. Details Only 1 left in stock. Sold by A ENTERTAINMENT and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.

Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service Amazon offers sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's warehouses, and Amazon directly does the picking, packing, shipping and customer service on these items. Something Amazon hopes you'll especially enjoy: FBA items are eligible for and for Amazon Prime just as if they were Amazon items.

If you're a seller, you can increase your sales significantly by using Fulfilment by Amazon. We invite you to learn more about this programme .

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

  • Shiner [DVD] [2001]
  • +
  • Little Voice [DVD]
Total price: £6.88
Buy the selected items together

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

Customers Also Watched on Amazon Video

Product details

  • Actors: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Frank Harper, Andy Serkis
  • Directors: John Irvin
  • Writers: Scott Cherry
  • Producers: Al Burgess, Barry Townsley, Geoffrey Reeve, Guy Collins, Jim Reeve
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Oct. 2002
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY2D
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,673 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Billy 'Shiner' Simpson (Michael Caine) is a frustrated boxing promoter nearing the end of his time at the edge of the ring. Billy's has been an inglorious career, tarred with the usual brushes with the underworld, yet no great trophies on the mantlepiece. But with his son Eddie (Matthew Marsden) shaping up as a bit of a contender Shiner thinks he has a shot at getting into the big league at last and bets all by putting up the money for a fight with an American champ. The day of the big fight comes and goes with Eddie sadly trounced by Frank Spedding's (Martin Landau) boy, and, in a dark twist, Eddie winds up murdered. Shiner must now search for the killer, and seek vengeance East-end style.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Last Orders [2001] [DVD]
    Michael Caine
    4.4 out of 5 stars 98
    DVD
    £4.25 Amazon Prime
  2. Too Late The Hero [DVD] [1969]
    Michael Caine
    4.4 out of 5 stars 50
    DVD
    £4.00 Amazon Prime
  3. The Whistle Blower [DVD] (1987)
    Michael Caine
    4.3 out of 5 stars 34
    DVD
    £2.55 Amazon Prime
  4. Without A Clue [DVD]
    Michael Caine
    4.7 out of 5 stars 95
    DVD
    £4.00 Amazon Prime
  5. Alfie [DVD] [1966]
    Michael Caine
    4.3 out of 5 stars 57
    DVD
    £3.48 Amazon Prime
  6. The Statement [DVD] [2004]
    Michael Caine
    4.1 out of 5 stars 30
    DVD
    £4.00 Amazon Prime
Next

Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars
5 star
7
4 star
2
3 star
1
2 star
3
1 star
0
See all 13 customer reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Write a customer review

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsA Return To Get Carter
By A Customer on 27 July 2004
Format: DVD
For anyone who likes Michael Caine, and particularly his performances in as tough, imposing gangsters, Shiner is a film for you. Caine is at his best in this superbly written thriller, about a boxing promoter who gambles everything on his son winning a title fight. But when his son is knocked out in th first round, and subsequently murdered, Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Caine) must unravel the truth as to who did it, and why his son only lasted one round.
Caines Performance is second only to the one he produced for Get Carter. Although much of Caine's stature may have gone, his dramatic vocal presence remains, with many of the best one liners he has produced for years.
Although it is said this film has an abrupbt ending, anyone who is a serious Caine fan will appreciate this well written and perfomed Vehicle.
Comment 9 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsCome not between the dragon and his wrath.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 1 Dec. 2014
Format: DVD
Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is building up to his big boxing promoting night, the headline of which is his own son, Eddie "Golden Boy" Simpson (Matthew Marsden). But family troubles begin to weigh heavy, a police investigation closes in on him and a rival American promoter is breathing down his neck. It's going to get messy.

Surprisingly for a Michael Caine British gangster movie, Shiner is a little under known. A shame because it's really rather good. Caine himself felt that by 2000 the cinema loving public had had enough of British films of this type, hence why it did poorly at the box office and quickly disappeared into the retail chain of things.

It's basically a reworking of King Lear, in London and with Caine on super form. Billy Simpson is a grade "A" noir protagonist, the world he inhabits is ultimately too much for him, there's treachery and dishonesty – violence and disappointments, all around him, but still he ploughs on as if he will eventually become the king of the castle. Yet this is the noirville area of London, of grubby bars and grey landscapes, the hall playing host to Billy's big night is a place of stale cheese sandwiches and blocked toilets.

On either side of Billy are his two henchman played by Frank Harper and Andy Serkis, two sides of the same coin they are, though they menace in different ways. Billy's two daughters played by Claire Rushbrook and Frances Barber, also two sides of the same coin, but conversely they have different love for their father. Martin Landau is the smooth American promoter with a dame on his arm and a grudge for Billy, and Gary Lewis and Kenneth Cranham fill out important roles as characters caught in Billy's soon to be maelstrom.Read more ›
Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
3.0 out of 5 starsA cockney Lear with the gloves off
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 18 Feb. 2009
Format: DVD
Michael Caine and producer Geoffrey Reeve's frequent collaborations usually result in exponentially bad cable-movie-lite style movies (The Whistle-Blower, Half Moon Street, Quicksand and the unbelievably bad Shadow Run), so it's a surprise how effective much of Shiner is, especially since it comes from the usually disappointing John Irvin and was part of the tidal wave of British gangster movies that flooded the market post-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The first hour is often very good indeed as Caine's vicious illegal fight promoter finally gets his day in the sun with his first legit fight that could see his own son on the way to a title fight. The kind of guy who makes the National lottery show look tasteful and who'll have your arm broken if he thinks you've shortchanged him, he bulldozes his way through the preparations, not letting little things like a police investigation into a fighter's death or his son's nerves standing in his way, literally betting everything - including his children's houses - on his boy winning. Naturally he's heading for a big fall, with shades of King Lear en route with his two daughters squabbling over family loyalty vs. Shiner pissing away the kids' inheritance (not helped by Francis Barber's terrible performance as a grotesquely caricatured Regan and Goneril in one). The last 40 minutes when everything goes horribly wrong don't work nearly as well, though the revelation at the end is suitably banal - no real conspiracy, merely the consequence of Shiner's hubris - even if the final gunplay seems a little overblown, but Caine's powerhouse turn makes it well worth a look.

The DVD boasts a decent transfer, but unfortunately not in it's original 2.35:1 cinema ratio but a more TV-friendly 1.85:1.
Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsMy heart in my throat
By Michael Bo on 3 May 2003
Format: DVD
I am a big fan of the picture, because it so subtly plays with your expectations, and fails to deliver in such a spectacular fashion that the ending becomes the whole glorious point of it. Michael Caine, better than ever, is a lowlife boxing promoter who, with age and increasing paranoia, sees it fit to go out with a bang, on a level with the great Shakespearean tragedies. True to form, everyone dies around him, as he strives to find the meaning of life, the reason for all the terror that he initiated himself. In the final few pictures my heart was in my throat, I was that excited.
Go buy it, rent it, whatever - it has the makings of a great picture.
Comment 6 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsReview of "Shiner".
By rachael sara bamford on 13 Oct. 2002
Format: DVD
Shiner is an excellent film,set and filmed in the East End. Michael Caine plays Billy 'shiner' Simpson in this gritty boxing drama.Up and coming movie actor Matthew Marsden shines through as he plays Eddie(Billy's son).Billy organises a fight between Eddie and the prize fighter of Spedding(Martin Landau).Billy has alot riding on this,Eddie needs to win,but things go badly wrong.Billy tries to find out some answers. There is an excellent supporting cast,including Andy Serkis as one of Billy's minders.This is a film with many subplots and some brutal fight scenes,but this is an excllent film.
Comment 10 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Michael Caine at his best, good old fashioned english film, Great!

Published 6 months ago by linda smith
2.0 out of 5 starsThis is a really good film lots of really good boxing in it and ...

This is a really good film lots of really good boxing in it and Michael caines part is really good as the boxing promoter he is quiet hard in it as well and I like his son Eddie as... Read more

Published 8 months ago by alexander smith
5.0 out of 5 starsBest British Gangster Movie since Long Good Friday

A very enjoyable film Michael Caine plays the character Billy Shiner superbly,but unlike Harold Shand in Long Good Friday (Surely the greatest ever British Gangster Movie) Billy... Read more

Published 9 months ago by J. Clark
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Thanks

Published 12 months ago by Geoffrey George Dean
5.0 out of 5 starsThis DVD is fantastic

I removed it from the DVD box and immediately marveled at the perfect balance of the disc. It is truly weighted equally all around the disc and the central hole had just as much... Read more

Published on 1 Dec. 2013 by Charlie
2.0 out of 5 starsA good cast but a poor film

A good cast but a poor film. Weak ending and lots of foul language. Surprised Michael Caine agreed to star in this mediocre film.

Published on 6 Nov. 2011 by John Atkin
2.0 out of 5 starsGrim

I don't know. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I remember learning in high school English Lit several decades ago that there are three basic elements to a story: protagonist,... Read more

Published on 29 Dec. 2005 by Mr. Joe
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat film since Get Carter..

Shiner is one of the great films starring Michael Caine as a boxing promoter who puts his son up against the American champion.. When he loses and gets murdered in the process.. Read more

Published on 17 Oct. 2004

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
› See all discussions...

Look for similar items by category

Feedback