Brick

2006 "A detective story."
7.1| 1h50m| R| en| More Info
Released: 31 March 2006 Released
Producted By: Bergman Lustig Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.brickmovie.net/
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After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.

Genre

Drama, Mystery

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Director

Rian Johnson

Production Companies

Bergman Lustig Productions

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Brick Audience Reviews

ThiefHott Too much of everything
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
contimentalmatt A film that pays homage and respect to old Hollywood hard boiled noir films completely straight and without parody. Rian Johnson, now known for Looper and Star Wars, gives us a fantastic debut about a high school drama inspired equally by David Lynch and Howard Hawks. The film will wonderfully directed by Johnson, which for being a first effort, bleeds style in everything from the direction, the shot composition, the dialogue, and the narrative structure. For being made with a budget of a little under $500,000, the movie never feels cheap nor does it ever grow dull. The cinematography is also well done, almost feeling anime-inspired, specifically by Cowboy Bebop. The only negatives of this film is that sometimes the narrative of the film can get confusing and muddled and that the style sometimes seems to saturate the meat of the film. Overall, Brick is a movie I would recommend to any film student or amateur director getting started. The perfect example of what you could do on a modest budget, an idea, and the drive to follow your passion.
memebigboy-98803 Brick is a moody atmospheric mystery film with dialogues straight out of a 1940's hard-boiled detective masterpiece with visuals influenced cowboy bebop, the film takes place in a High School and you might think that teenager doing detective work is silly well the movie makes jokes about that, the film is very cheap in a good way because the film is about high schoolers so it adds to the mystique, the sound quality is little muddied in some places and will i do like the dialogue it does sound a little confusing because of sound quality, some of the side characters are under used, overall the movie is great you should watch it
Paul Nevai I am about 50 years older than the characters in the film. As it turns out they speak a different English than I. Even with subtitles and even if many of the words sounded familiar, I was completely lost. Finally, after 80 minutes, I admitted defeat and stopped watching it.Please note that I am a white person who lives in the US just like the kids in the movie. In addition, I am a retired professor at a major state university who dealt with thousands of kids over the years. Nevertheless, I never in my life met kids with such an odd vocabulary. Am I out of touch?
evanlivi The Brick is quite like many film noirs as it includes a very cynical protagonist who has some shady dealings, he is also trying to solve a crime in a dark and mysterious setting, finally there is definitely a femfatal or two. However, unlike other more classic film noirs it takes place in or close to the present and as opposed to fallowing a hardened criminal or a private detective, it fallows an angry albeit intelligent high school student, with most of the other characters being teenagers too. As such the film is classified as a neo noir film. This style gives it all the charm of most noir films with a new back drop. This is a large part of the reason why I found the movie so enjoyable. The movie like many great noir films leaves you jumping at shadow and confused Intel the end. Although the film can often be a little confusing do to the unusual dialog and terminology of the film but this does add something to the mystery and some thing to the atmosphere of the film so in the end it can be forgiven for them. So if your looking for a good noir film that has something new then this is the film for you.