Brick (2005)
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Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Brendan
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Emilie De Ravin |
Emily
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Nora Zehetner |
Laura
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Lukas Haas |
The Pin
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Noah Fleiss |
Tugger
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Matt O'Leary |
The Brain
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Noah Segan |
Dode
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Richard Roundtree |
Assistant V.P. Trueman
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Meagan Good |
Kara
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Brian J. White |
Brad Bramish
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Emile de Ravin |
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Plot |
High school collides with hard-boiled film noir in the twisty, cunning Brick. When he gets a mysterious message from his ex-girlfriend, a high school loner named Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin) starts to dig into a crisscrossed web of drugs and duplicity, eventually getting entwined in the criminal doings of a teenage crime lord known as the Pin (Lukas Haas), his thuggish henchman Tugger (Noah Fleiss, Joe the King), and a mysterious girl named Laura (Nora Zehetner, Fifty Pills). Brick has not only the seductive, labyrinthine plot of a crime thriller by Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) or Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely) but also a dense high-school version of hard-boiled lingo that's both comic and poetic. The movie unfolds with headlong momentum as Brendan manipulates, fights, and staggers his way through layers of high-school society. Gordon-Levitt is excellent; between this and the equally compelling Mysterious Skin, he's left his 3rd Rock from the Sun days behind. Also featuring Meagan Good (Waist Deep) and Richard Roundtree (Shaft). --Bret Fetzer |
Movie Details |
Genre |
Drama; Mystery |
Director |
Rian Johnson |
Producer |
Ram Bergman; Mark G. Mathis |
Writer |
Rian Johnson |
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Studio |
Universal Studios |
Country |
USA
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Language |
English |
Audience Rating |
R |
Running Time |
110 mins |
Movie Release Date |
10/14/2005 |
Color |
Color |
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Personal Details |
Format |
DVD |
Seen It |
Yes |
Index |
742 |
Collection Status |
In Collection |
Purchase Date |
8/9/2006 |
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Product Details |
Region |
Region 1 |
Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
UPC (Barcode) |
025192866326 |
Release Date |
8/8/2006 |
Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
Packaging |
Keep Case |
Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Over 20 Minutes of Deleted and Extended Scenes The Inside Track: Casting the Roles Feature Commentary by Cast and Filmmakers |
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