Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Brand: ALL

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 07-10-2008

Details: Product Description A noir mystery set in a modern-day Southern California neighbourhood. In his high school, Brendan Frye’s piercing intelligence spares no one. Brendan is not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does–until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. Bonus Features: Deleted and Extended Scenes with Introductions by Director Rian Johnson; Short Film "Origami Master": Rian Johnson's short film he made with his high-school buddies; Auditions: Nora Zehetner and Noah Segan. Amazon.ca 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 Brendan 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)

UPC: 065935222347

EAN: 0065935222347

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood