Two conmen walk into a scam — only one walks out with the truth.
Freshly out of jail, Xavier teams up with a mature conman to take part in an elaborate scam. When it appears he is being double-crossed, Xavier must take control of his destiny and rewrite history to prevent being sent back inside. The art of deception is never straightforward...
Acting
Webber's jittery ex-con energy keeps you guessing his angle.
Writing
Nested scams where every revelation rewrites what you saw.
Director
Dale Sadler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
British crime cinema post-Lock Stock often fetishizes 'the geezer' — Deceit interrogates that mythology by making its hustlers genuinely pathetic.
Dale Sadler's background in documentary gives the scam sequences an unnerving procedural realism — every forged document was legally producible for filming.
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