Breaking and Entering |  | Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman (II), Rafi Gavron, Ed Westwick
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Serbo-Croatian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WEID80193D
UPC: 796019801935
EAN: 0796019801935
ASIN: B000N4SHOO
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: May 8, 2007
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BREAKING AND ENTERING may lack the quality and scope of Anthony Minghella s previous work such as THE ENGLISH PATIENT and COLD MOUNTAIN but it s an interesting character-driven drama. Jude Law (CLOSER) plays Will a landscape architect who succeeds in business but finds his personal life is tougher to navigate. He has been with Liv (Robin Wright Penn FORREST GUMP) for years but it s difficult to connect with her due to her worry over her teenage daughter. When Will catches a teenage boy named Miro (Ravi Gafron) breaking into his office he chases the thief home. He later meets the boy's mother a Bosnian refugee played by Juliette Binoche (CHOCOLAT). His anger at Miro is quickly transformed into attraction to his mother further complicating his relationship with Liv.This is Law s third teaming with Minghella (after THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and COLD MOUNTAIN) and their partnership rewards the audience with a typically good performance from the actor. Wright Penn and Binoche also display the talent people have come to expect but it s the supporting cast that shines here. As Will s business partner Sandy Martin Freeman plays second fiddle to Law but he possesses a similar charm as his character on THE OFFICE. As a persistent prostitute Vera Farmiga (THE DEPARTED) is one of the movie s highlights providing laughter in what is largely a very bleak film. Gavron is a capable young actor as Miro but his performance is most astonishing for his skills at the sport of parkour a kind of urban acrobatics on display throughout the film. If only these characters were half as adept at life and relationships as Gavron is at leaping from building to building....System Requirements:Running Time: 120 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 796019801935 Manufacturer No: 80193
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The atmospheric and erotically charged Breaking and Entering reunites director Anthony Minghella with Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain) and the haunting Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, for which she and Minghella won Academy Awards). Law fully invests himself as pre-occupied landscape architect Will Francis, who with his partner (Martin Freeman from the original British version of The Office), is heading a gentrification project in London's seedy, crime-plagued King's Cross neighborhood. At home, he and Liv (Robin Penn Wright), his morose Swedish-American girlfriend of 10 years, are increasingly estranged over the demands of his job and of caring for Liv's autistic daughter, a 13-year-old aspiring gymnast. Will, hiding his identity, begins an affair with Amira (Binoche), the mother of a youth who has twice ransacked Will's office. Amira is a Bosnian refugee with a fierce survival streak that is not above blackmail when she learns who Will is. This is Minghella's first original screenplay since his little-known romantic gem Truly Madly Deeply. The dialogue has Woody Allen pretensions: A cleaning woman who comes under suspicion for the break-ins invokes Kafka. A prostitute (Vera Farmiga giving the film's liveliest performance) has a philosophical bent. Will himself ham-handedly explains how he much prefers metaphors to straightforward communication (he'd love this film's title). An art-house film with an A-list cast and wrenching performances, Breaking and Entering couldn't get arrested in theatres, but it is a fine addition to Crash and other liberal-minded "them and us" dramas. --Donald Liebenson
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 Very Solid Film!!! November 14, 2009
J. Gosserand
I really enjoyed this movie. As is the case with most movies these days, some of the content was somewhat improbable in the "real world". However, to sum it up, I would describe the movie as "entertainment that makes you think"!
 bad movie July 20, 2009
SWAMP FOX (OAKLAND, CA United States)
My biggest problem with this movie involves the script, which has too many characters who appear and disappear, and is far too long.
Secondly, the characters do not relate to one another in any meaningful way.
Jude Law and his wife are not connected. Jude Law and the boy's mother are equally unconnected. Jude Law, who appears to be a successful architect, never works, never has emotions, and is as drab as his boring wardrobe.
Only the minor characters actually show some humanity and distinction but they are too few and far between in a dismal movie.
Unbelievable Coupling August 13, 2008
M. E. Wood (Canada)
My and and I just didn't buy Jude Law and Robin Wright-Penn as a couple. Nor the supposed attraction and sexual tension between Law and Binoche. Of the three I think Wright-Penn stands out the most, followed by the girl who plays her daughter Bea. The other interesting part was the antics of the young man playing the agile monkey boy. I wouldn't watch this film again.
Didn't do it for me December 29, 2007
Aeneas
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It takes the first 45 minutes before some things starts to happen and then still it feels very stiffled. What came to mind watching this was the book "Unholy Hunger", as it displays very well the feeding happening in human relating on planet Earth. Everyone is feeding on somebody else; sometimes it is mutual feeding and at other times it is distinctly predatorial. Not a pretty sight.
Great idea....poor execution December 28, 2007
Lunchtime O' Boozle (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just because it's Anthony Minghella does not mean we forget what good film-making is all about.
The positives: I loved the shots of King's Cross, and I fondly remember the times I spent their in my student days (and all-nighters!) at The Scala Cinema. I liked the way the regeneration of this area was woven into the plot as a contrast to the crumbling relationship of Will and Liv. Binoche is great, and I loved the cameo by Juliet Stevenson who seemed very believable and low-key. The Kafka joke was a great line.
The negatives: Jude law was poor; he needs acting lessons to drag out of him what little acting talent he has. OK, he's a fashionable name but his acting is poor and he was simply not believable in this role. I know a fashionable name gets you investors which you need to make this kind of film, but it ultimately undermines the whole film if they seriously under-perform. There was no real depth. The plot held together shakily and was so full of cliches my groaning woke the neighbours: the tart with a heart; Serbian refugees as organized criminals; ice-cold (American) Swedish hottie etc etc.
The ending was just plain sad and unconvincing.
Shame really, the idea was great.
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