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Actor: Emilie De Ravin, Joseph Gordon-LevittBrand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Brick
Movie Review: Superb
Summary: 4 Stars
A throwback to detective noir flicks from the 30's and 40's set in a high school, this excellent movie keeps viewers glued with snappy dialogue and a sturdy plot. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wonderful as the outcast protagonist , walking a fine line between brooding and witty as he investigates his ex-girlfriend's disappearance. Lukas Haas drops in as a quirky drug kingpin, and Richard Roundtree appears as the assistant Vice Principal. A back and forth between Levitt and Roundtree in one scene is hilarious and makes the entire movie worth watching, let alone with the rest of this refreshingly different film.
Summary of Brick
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 FetzerBrendan Frye is a loner someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead he is determined to find the "who" and "why" and plunges into the dark and dangerous social strata of rich girl Laura intimidating Tug drug-addled Dode seductive Kara and the ominous Pin. But who can he really trust? These are the ingredients of Brick a gritty and provocative thriller that critics describe as "a clever twist-filled whodunit!" (Claudia Puig USA Today)System Requirements:Running Time: 110 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: R UPC: 025192866326 Manufacturer No: 28663
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