The Sweeney (2012 film) The Sweeney (2012 film) The Sweeney is a 2012 British action drama film, inspired by the 1970s "The Sweeney", the British television police drama of the same name, but set in contemporary London. Directed and written by Nick Love, and co-written by John Hodge, it is based on the characters created by Ian Kennedy Martin. It stars Ray Winstone as Jack Regan, Plan B (credited as Ben Drew) as George Carter, and Damian Lewis as Frank Haskins, with Allen Leech and Hayley Atwell. The story focuses on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police. The
The Sweeney a sharp put-down to a corrupt copper in "Bad Apple", and refuses to take a bribe in "Golden Fleece". In the Squad, informality is everything. Everyone calls DCI Haskins simply "Haskins" (except to his face), though Regan occasionally calls him by his first name, Frank. No one ever calls Regan "Mister"—except the villains, or sometimes Carter when talking to Haskins. To the Squad, he is always simply "the Guv'nor", or just "Guv". In turn, he invariably calls Carter and the other Squad members by their first names. When off duty, he and George Carter are friends and drinking buddies, so