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Mood:
- AtmosphericRoughSuspensefulBleakGloomyTense
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Plot:
- VengeanceVigilantismSocial DecayCrimesElderlySocietyGangGolden Years more...
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Genres:
- ThrillerCrime
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- EnglandUrban
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Strong Violent Content
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Harry Brown, 2009
English
UK
Profile of Harry Brown
Harry Brown can be described as atmospheric, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around elderly characters, social decay, and vigilantism. The main genres are thriller and crime. In approach, Harry Brown is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It is located in England. Harry Brown takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that Harry Brown involves strong violent content.
Summary of Harry Brown
Michael Caine is Harry Brown. If that sentence carries a hint of action-movie menace, it's not entirely misplaced. Caine's Harry is eventually roused to awesome and satisfying vengeance, but this film begins in more troubling, nuanced territory.Harry Brown lives alone, shut away in one of Britain's bleak public-housing apartment blocks. As his wife lives out her last days in the hospital, Harry restricts his activities to games of chess in the pub with Leonard, his last best friend. All around them swarms chaos. Their housing estate has been taken over by warring gangs that deal drugs and settle scores with impunity. The police, represented here by upright detective Frampton (Emily Mortimer) and her cynical partner Hicock (Charlie Creed-Miles), are reduced to simply informing the victims' families when the latest shooting or knifing occurs – visits that Hicock calls death-o-grams.It's a dark world, and director Daniel Barber does a wonderful job contrasting Harry's old Britain of pubs and basic decency with the youth-gang savagery he walks through every day on his way home. When Harry suffers a horrible loss to the gangs, he quietly decides to act. It's here that one fact becomes important: Harry Brown served in the Royal Marines, where he spent years battling the IRA in Ulster.And so the stage is set for a classic showdown. Barber follows up his Academy Award-nominated short film with a striking feature debut, showing remarkable control of tone and pace. This is a slow burn of a film, and has much more on its mind than the simple pleasure of retribution. The depiction of gang structures and gang violence feels more kitchen sink than shoot-'em-up. Barber pays attention to authentic detail in both setting and character – although he still allows for some brilliant, thundering firepower.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 6 November 2009 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
Cast and Crew
as Harry Brown
as Detective Inspector Frampton
as Childs
as Sid
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- 21.January.2011
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- by: foodfight
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