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Actor: Emilie De Ravin, Joseph Gordon-LevittBrand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (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
DVD Reviews of Brick
DVD Review: brick rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
among the best movies i have ever seen. solid acting weaved into a modern version of the old detective movies. awesome dialogue.DVD Review: Ummm..Interesting
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this movie because I watched it once and remembered it being good, but unfortunately my memory did not serve correctly. Too advanced dialogue for high schoolers. But a good storyline and fast shipping though.DVD Review: Wonderful unconventional homage to Classic Film Noir.
Summary: 4 Stars
Brick is not an easy film to take. It's a picture where if you choose to place yourself within the realms of reality, your going to find yourself hopelessly lost within this film's framework. The film is a High School film but not in the conventional sense. It's not a period piece, but is in a contemporary setting. The characters and dialouge are not the way real High School kids may talk, but that's not the point of the world created.
What this film is supposed to present is the world of classic Film Noir in a setting not very usual. If you can accept the fact of kids talking in 30s and 40s idiomatics than you'll be able to appreciate the picture.
The plot is a familiar one to fans of this dark genre: a young man is searching for the murderer of his girlfriend and is caught in a world of betrayal, murder and madness. It's amazing how captivating the film is and it looks like it was fun to do, since the dialouge, which may be laborious for some, is justifiably cool and absolutely fun to hear.
The characters are very engaging including a terrific lead performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has clearly left his "Third Rock From The Sun" days far behind him. He's effective as the loner, able to meld the right combination of world weariness and charisma to make the audience follow his story.
He's supported by a fine cast, all representing the genre's archetypes including the lovely Nora Zehetner as the requisite femme fatale who's got a thing for our hero. Her refreshing mixture of sexiness and vulnerability keeps her character sympathetic throughout. There's Noah Fleiss as the thuggish strong man of the town's leading drug dealer and he brings a suitable mixture of insanity and agression to his cliched role.
Top acting honors though must go out to Lukas Haas who portrays the flamboyant drug dealer "the Pin", a role the young actor plays with a suitable sense of dramatic bravado.
Direction is top notch and fast paced, the film rarely missing a beat as it moves through it's jagged and rough plot. The film at times comes dangerously close to being too self indulgent, but is able to walk it's tightrope with relative ease.
The DVD features some interesting extras including director's commentary(quite humorous actually) and deleted scenes. Nothing crucial, but interesting nonetheless.
The film is not for everyone, but for those willing to take a chance and if you have appreciation for the classic films of the Crime genre, you may find yourself enjoying this little indie sleeper.
DVD Review: Overrated
Summary: 1 Stars
One of the most overrated indies ever.
Nothing but style.
SHALLOW.
DVD Review: Fast, Cheap, and Brand New
Summary: 5 Stars
Just read the tittle of the review and you will see it meet all the requirements you need to know for a great purchase.
Description of Brick
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)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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