Harry Brown Hollywood Thriller Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Actors:Michael Caine,Emily Mortimer
Director: Daniel Barber
Producers: Steve Norris,Matthew Vaughn,
Kris Thykier, Keith Bell (II)
Camera, Film & Tape
Director of Photography: Martin Ruhe:
Editor: Joe Walker
Worldwide Distributors:Samuel Goldwyn Films
Theatrical Distributor: Lionsgate U.K.
Theatrical Distributor: (United Kingdom)
David Distribucion :Distribution Rights (Mexico)
E1 Entertainment Canada :Distribution Rights (Canada)
Other Companies: Hanway Films
Genres: Art/Foreign, Thriller, Western and Crime/Gangster
Running Time:1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date: April 30th, 2010 (limited)
MPAA Rating:R for strong violence
and language throughout, druguse and sexual content.
Plot:
As a modest, law abiding citizen, Harry Brown lives alone. His only companion is his best friend Leonard. When Leonard is killed, Brown reaches his breaking point.
Michael Caine is a former serviceman who reaches his breaking point when his best friend is murdered by hooligans.
Movie Reviews:Harry Brown (3 stars out of four) lets Michael Caine show us his action-hero side one more time in a film that Charles Bronson would have been proud to call his own.
This British Death Wish is about a lonely pensioner (Caine) whose wife is in a hospital and doesn’t remember him, and whose apartment complex has gone downhill. When his had-enough friend is murdered,, Harry Brown weighs his options, figures what he has and hasn’t got left to live for, and sets out to take care of business.
A police detective (Emily Mortimer) just trying to fit in with the boys club that is her precinct suspects Harry, but her colleagues aren’t that interested when a lot of pretty awful crooks turn up dead.
Barber spares us few ugly details in showing us how an elderly man with a past (“Did you ever kill anyone?” “Don’t ask me that.”) might handle himself in these circumstances. But the Gary Young screenplay stumbles as he cooks up melodramatic coincidences and an over-the-top finale.
When a man’s list of film and television credits pushes the 150 mark, as Michael Caine’s does, you could probably get him to hold forth for an evening just on the women he has worked with (Shelley Winters in “Alfie,” Angie Dickinson in “Dressed to Kill,” Sigourney Weaver in “Half Moon Street”), or his war movies (“Battle of Britain,” “The Eagle Has Landed,” “A Bridge Too Far”) or some of his more frivolous projects (“The Swarm,” “Beyond the Poseidon Adventure,” “The Muppet Christmas Carol”). But when Mr. Caine sits for “SIR MICHAEL CAINE, ICON,” an evening of conversation on Wednesday presented by the Museum of the Moving Image, forgive him if he mostly wants to talk about his new movie, “Harry Brown,” which will be screened that night and opens on Friday.
The film falls into the “older guys who get fed up with the young ruffians around them” genre, territory worked by, for instance, Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino.” Mr. Caine, 77, plays the title character, who goes after a gang of toughs when his best friend is killed.
Michael Caine as the title character in “Harry Brown,” which will be screened on Wednesday at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of the program “Sir Michael Caine, Icon.” The film opens on Friday at select theaters.
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