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Brick (2005) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Mar 31, 2006
Budget USD 500,000
BoxOffice: $2.0M
Official Website:
Brick Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violent and drug content.
Country USA
Production Companies
Bergman Lustig Productions
Studio Focus Features
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Tagline: A detective story.
Plot: A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres. In mixing these two disparate worlds, Director Rian Johnson creates many comically jarring and ironic moments. When loner Brendan Frye (a barely recognizable Joseph Gordon-Levitt of THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN) gets a desperate-sounding call from his ex-love Emily (Emilie de Ravin), he feels compelled to help her, plunging himself into the seedy world of teenage crime that pulled her away from him in the first place. Throughout this journey, Brendan plays a hard-boiled type reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's iconic Sam Spade character. Johnson's script invests heavily in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and is filled with other archetypical characters like the femme fatale (Nora Zehetner), the eccentric crime lord (a brilliant Lukas Haas), and the dame in distress. As teens trade in their cell phones for things as old-fashioned as pay phones and 1940s gangster vocabulary, occasional references to detention and first period provide a humorous contrast with the otherwise unbelievable complex, precocious, and largely parentless world that these teens inhabit.With its heavy reliance on references to old noir classics like THE MALTESE FALCON and
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What would be a shame is if only 12- to 22-year-old set turned out for this. This is not simply a great youth movie; it is a great movie, period.  --PAM GRADY (Reel.com)
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Mars Attacks!, Witness, Everyone Says I Love You |
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Storytelling, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, The Laramie Project | Matt O'Leary
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