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Brick

Brick

2006 · 110 min · EN · R · 6.8 (1,376 votes)
Dir. Rian Johnson · Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Matt O'Leary, Noah Fleiss, Lukas Haas, Meagan Good · Music Nathan Johnson

“A detective story.”

DramaMysteryCrime

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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This film feels like a classic hardboiled detective story, but set in a disquieting high school underworld. It's tense and anxious, with a propulsive mystery driving a lone wolf through a labyrinth of manipulation and danger. The mood is gritty and melancholic, wrapped in a distinctive neo-noir style.

tensegrittyanxioushardboiledmelancholicpropulsiveneo-noirhardboiled detectivestylized dialoguegritty realisminvestigationmanipulationcriminal underworldidentityloss
drug dealerhigh schoolcaliforniaex-girlfriendinvestigationmanipulationlone wolfhalloween partymurderdisappearancewhodunitdrugscriminal underworlddrug lordex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationshiplonerloose cannonparanoid
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