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When loner Brendan Frye finds a note from his exgirlfriend in his school locker, he's intrigued. But after getting a desperate-sounding call from his ex-love Emily , the High School student feels compelled to help her. Doing so plunges him into a seedy world of teenage crime and shady characters. A world that pulled her away from him in the first place. Relying on his intuition and the help of his peer 'The Brain', Brendan slowly unravells the truth behind her disappearance and susequent death. The trail leads to a local drug boss named 'The Pin', who runs his empire from the basement of his mothers suburban home. Asking too many questions, sticking his nose in where he shouldn't soon earns Brendan the wrath of The Pin's short tempered bodyguard Tugger. |
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"This movie leaves me looking forward to the director's next film; we can say of Rian Johnson, as somebody once said about
a dame named Brigid O'Shaughnessy, 'You're good. You're very good.'" Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIME "A spoof would have been easy. Instead, Johnson plunges off the deep end, risking ridicule by shaping this spellbinder with grit and gravitas." Peter Travers ROLLING STONE "Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique." Troy Patterson SLATE "The freshest take on the genre since Reservoir Dogs." Jurgen Fauth ABOUT.COM "This year's Donnie Darko? Brick is in a class of its own, showing neither a hint of pretension nor convolution." Joe Utichi FILMFOCUS "Brick is kinda brilliant and kinda demented, and you love it for the former far more than you hold the latter against it." Shawn Levy OREGONIAN |
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"The single most satisfying cinematic experience of 'Brick' lies in witnessing director Johnson's matter-of-fact
transformation of the contemporary American suburban landscape into a moral stage of mythic proportion." Les Wright CULTUREVULTURE.NET "Things are played hard and fast and mean and lean ...[Levitt's] dogged, world-weary demeanor does the old-time gumshoes proud. So does this weird, glorious freak of a movie." Andrew Wright THE STRANGER "A smart, original neo-noir that works as an ingenious mindgame as well as a slick Hollywood calling card." Damon Wise EMPIRE MAGAZINE [UK] ".. it's a well crafted film with (mostly) excellent, naturalistic performances - Joseph Gordon-Levitt (star of the controversial "Mysterious Skin") handles the difficult role with an intensity and moody intelligence that James Dean might have brought to the role." Andrew L Urban URBAN CINEFILE "Johnson's triumph is not that he applies noir style to a teen setting, but that he uses it to give teen concerns - love, drugs, friendship -- a fresh and vital forum." Josh Larsen SUN PUBLICATIONS |
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Blow – to leave, depart; e.g., “Did she blow last night?” Bulls – cops; e.g., “What first, tip the bulls?”; also, as a verb, to turn over to the cops; e.g., “I bulled the rat.” Burg (or Burgh) – town, city; e.g., “He knows every two-bit toker in the burg.” Copped – stole; e.g., “She copped the junk.” Dose – to take drugs; e.g., “He dosed off the bad junk and it laid him out.” Duck soup – easy pickings. Gat – gun. Gum – to mess things up; e.g., “Bulls would only gum it.” Heel – to walk away from (, and show your heels to); e.g., “I’m not heeling you to hook you.” Hop; Jake; Junk – drugs. Pick – a ride in a car (as in “pick-up”); e.g., “Did she get a pick?” Reef worm – a stoner (abbrev. of “reefer”). Scape – a patsy to take the blame (abbrev. of “scapegoat”). Scraped – begged off of, cadged from; e.g., “Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang and they’ll say they scraped it off [name]…” Shamus – a private detective. Shine – to wield (as with a weapon); e.g., “He shines a blade.” Sprang – originated; e.g., “His gat sprang from Tugger’s gang.” Take a powder – to slip away; e.g., “Why’d you take a powder the other night?” Yeg – (generic for,) a guy; e.g., “They’d probably find some yeg to pin it on.” |
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