Brick |  | Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emilie De Ravin
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 3105
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D28663D
UPC: 025192866326
EAN: 0025192866326
ASIN: B000FVQM2Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: August 8, 2006
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Product Description
A high school loner determined to find out why his ex-girlfriend has turned up dead enters the disturbing world of high school cliques and sub-cultures.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
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
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 Complete Crap January 23, 2010
Ehleighen (Twin Cities, MN)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the worst movie I've seen in a long time, I couldn't even watch half of it. It's suppose to be about high school students, but they don't even act or talk like teenagers. "I've got knives in my eyes, I'm going home sick". who the hell talks like that? I'm sure there is a rare weirdo who would likes this type of foo-foo crap, but not me.
PURE GARBAGE November 19, 2009
C. Gutierrez (San Antonio, Texas United States)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
This movie was a waste of money and time, bad actors and plot. What a waste of time, over rated on other reviews what were they thinking onless they were making a profit on this movie... I waste my money dont waste yours.
 Hard-Boiled High School November 15, 2009
Matthew Farrell (Tempe, Arizona)
This film isn't for everyone, and those with no knowledge of (or taste for) film noir and especially the Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction sub-genre will likely be confused or even bored by it. If you like either, though, you're in for a real treat.
A high-school student gets a cryptic call from an ex, and when she turns up dead a few days later, he launches his own investigation into the matter. Matters spiral from there.
I call this "hard-boiled high school" because it ingeniously takes a standard pulp setting and updates it to a modern high school: instead of the D.A. breathing down the detective's neck, it's the vice-principal, etc. Clever stuff.
The plot's complexity is almost Chandleresque and requires paying attention to dialogue and background details. The dialogue is straight out of a '30s copy of that pulp classic, Black Mask magazine. Hammett would be proud, especially since some of the slang is encased in some truly witty dialogue.
You have to like this sort of thing, of course, but if you do, it's surprisingly well-done, especially given the limited budget and that this was the director's first effort.
Highly recommended for fans of this sort of thing.
only my fav movie September 4, 2009
B. Naus
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
what can i say its my fav movie i can watch it 100 times. it has the feel of an inde film with the art style and more
moose
PRETENTIOUS GARBAGE August 6, 2009
mr. critic (lake city, fl)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
Watch the movie "Havoc" with Anne Hathaway to see how a teen drug/murder drama SHOULD be done. the teen actors in brick had little to work with...flimsy cluttered plot, mindless aimless violence, silly manipulation and macho posturing. the dialogue sounds like a 7th grade computer geek's impersonation of bogart or cagney. nobody of ANY generation speaks the way these kids do. half the time you are scratching your head at what these quasi-hipsters are even trying to say.
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