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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Brian J. White, Ari Welkom, Noah Fleiss, Emilie de Ravin, Matt O'Leary, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Meagan Good, Lucas Babin, Noah Segan, Lukas Haas, Richard Roundtree, Nora Zehetner

Categories: Movies, Mystery, Thriller, Film Noir, Teen, Detective Fiction, Indie, Drama Film, Crime Thriller, Neo-Noir, Detective, Crime Fiction

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Brick was distributed by Focus Features, opening in New York and Los Angeles on April 7, 2006. The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story that takes place in a Californian suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students. The film draws heavily in plot, characterization, and dialogue from hardboiled classics, especially from Dashiell Hammett. The title refers... MORE

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Brick was distributed by Focus Features, opening in New York and Los Angeles on April 7, 2006. The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story that takes place in a Californian suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students. The film draws heavily in plot, characterization, and dialogue from hardboiled classics, especially from Dashiell Hammett. The title refers to a block of heroin, compressed roughly to the size and shape of a brick. Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a student in an unnamed California high school, stares silently at the body of ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich (Emilie de Ravin) lying in a storm drain. Days earlier Brendan, who is in the know of the intricacies of the "upper crust" of drug-addicted socialites he is choosing to live outside of, receives a terrified phone call over a pay phone from Emily. She tearfully tells him, "I didn't know that the brick was bad," and that "the Pin's on it now." She begs him to help her before abruptly LESS