Marching Powder is a 2025 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Nick Love. It stars Danny Dyer as Jack Jones, a man given a short period to change his behaviour following an arrest for drugs and violence.
After being arrested for fighting and cocaine possession during a football hooligan brawl, Jack is ordered by the court to go to couples' therapy for six weeks. Unable to keep a job, he lives off of his father-in-law Ron's money under the condition that he watch over Ron's schizophrenic son Kenny Boy. Jack attempts to stay off of drugs and away from hooligan fighting for the sake of his relationship and his young son, while his wife Dani goes back to art school to recover what she sacrificed to be a stay-at-home mother.
The film was produced by Chris Clark and Will Clarke, with Zygi Kamasa and Andy Mayson credited as executive producers. It was produced by True Brit Entertainment and Altitude Film Entertainment. The BBFC lists the production year as 2024.
The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 March 2025. It has a running time of 96 minutes. In Ireland it was classified 18 by the IFCO. In the United Kingdom it was classified 18 by the BBFC; the BBFC record also notes a compulsory digital substitution to remove a potentially indecent image involving a child, made in accordance with the Protection of Children Act 1978.
The Firm holds a 33% approval rating at review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes based on the opinions of 12 critics.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a rating of three out of five stars, writing, "Marching Powder is broad, it's unsubtle, and its cheerfully nonjudgemental attitude to drugs has got it a rare 18 certificate â something that offers its own frisson, given the movie's laidback attitude to underage consumption of adult porn. But this film has got energy and chutzpah and there are one or two laughs." Helen O'Hara of Empire gave the film a rating of two out of five stars, writing, "You can make good films about bad people, and certainly not every redemption story has to result in a sinner becoming a saint. But making a film about a bad person who doesn't want redemption, who seems driven by grievance and who expresses his contempt for and sense of superiority to the audience â without any obvious justification for that feeling â is a tougher sell." Radio Times gave the film two out of five stars and characterised it as a reunion of Love and Dyer, commenting on the film's violence and drug-taking as central to its tone.