Harry Brown (Blu-ray) R
Every man has a breaking point.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 31, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlie Creed-Miles, Michael Caine, Liam Cunningham, Emily Mortimer & Ben Drew | |
Directed by | Daniel Barber | |
Edited by | Joe Walker | |
Music by | Paul Rogers & Pete Tong | |
Screenwriting by | Gary Young | |
Composition by | Martin Phipps & Ruth Barrett | |
Director of Photography: | Martin Ruhe |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The film is dark, beautifully half-lit and as controlled as it needs to be so Caine can work his way deeper into the character. His performance is astonishing: Harry is stooped, no longer physically strong, but he has immense reserves.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 2/4 --
On one side, it's all compellingly believable; on the other, it's simply incredible. We do our best to straddle the rift but, in the end, the gulf proves too wide, the contrast too great, and a tumbling movie takes us down with it.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Stylishly filmed in a grimy palette of putrescent green and muddy brown, the movie seems at times almost to revel in the nastiness it depicts.
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The Age (Australia)
A man and a film rooted in life, surviving and thriving on heart. A wake-up call for our time. A man for the ages. Move over John McClaine and Martin Riggs!
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 2/4 --
After a long run of baroquely plotted crime dramas like Layer Cake and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, it's a little depressing to come across a vigilante drama whose sole twist is its protagonist's advanced age.
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Boston Globe
Harry Brown might just about have got by as a tongue-in-cheek popcorn romp, but by setting itself up as a virtual state-of-the-nation address it only draws attention to its own petty, embittered vacuity.
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Sight and Sound
[I]t features an Expressionistic palette and steady, even stolid, camerawork and precise framing, which first complement Harry's routinized life and then underscore his resolve.
New York Times
Product Description:
Academy Award nominee Daniel Barber (THE TONTO WOMAN) makes his feature directorial debut with this gritty critique on contemporary British society starring Michael Caine as an elderly shut-in who's spurred to action by a senseless act of violence. Harry Brown (Caine) resides in a desolate public-housing apartment block as his sickly wife lies dying in a local hospital. He spends most of his days in solitude, only getting out to play the occasional game of chess at a nearby pub with his best friend, Leonard (David Bradley). The days of basic human decency seem to be a thing of the past, because in recent years barbarous drug dealers and gangsters have overtaken the dilapidated complex. Killing is a way of life for these young thugs, and as a result overburdened detectives Frampton (Emily Mortimer) and Hicock (Charlie Creed-Miles) are essentially relegated to knocking on doors and notifying parents when their children have been killed in the latest fracas, instead of investigating the crimes and jailing the guilty parties. When Leonard is murdered just feet from his own apartment, former Royal Marine Harry utilizes the skills he learned while fighting the IRA to take on the aggressive chavs who have intimidated the police into inaction.
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- UPC: 043396357594
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