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Brick
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
2006 · Directed by Rian Johnson · 110 min · Drama · Mystery · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
A detective story.
Plot
High school student Brendan Frye discovers a note directing him to a pay phone, where he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich, begging him for help. She mentions a "bad brick", "the Pin", and "Tug" before abruptly hanging up, apparently afraid of a passing black Ford Mustang, from which a distinctively-branded cigarette is thrown. Unable to locate Emily, Brendan enlists his friend Brain for help. An encounter with another ex-girlfriend, Kara, leads him to a party held by flirtatious upper-class girl Laura Dannon and her boyfriend, Brad Bramish. Laura points Brendan to Dode, Emily's drug-addicted new boyfriend, who arranges a meeting with Emily.
Emily dismisses the phone call as a mistake and tells Brendan to let her go. Brendan steals her notepad and finds a note that leads him to her dead body in a tunnel the following morning where he is beaten by an unidentified assailant. Brendan decides to investigate her murder, hiding the body deeper within the tunnel to avoid police involvement. With help from Brain, Brendan realizes that "the Pin" refers to a local kingpin. Brendan picks a fight with Brad, hoping to attract the Pin's attention. Later, a man wearing a beanie attacks Brendan.
Later Brendan sees the black Mustang in a parking lot and is attacked by the beanie-wearing thug as he demands to meet the Pin instead of fighting back. The man, revealed as Tug, the Pin's main enforcer, takes Brendan to the Pin's house. Laura reveals that she was at the Pin's house as well and drives Brendan back to school. She explains that Emily stole a "brick" of heroin after being rejected by the Pin's operation. Laura offers to help Brendan, but he distrusts her.
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Crew
- Written by: Rian Johnson
- Cinematography: Steve Yedlin
- Edited by: Rian Johnson
- Music: Nathan Johnson
- Production design: Jodie Lynn Tillen
- Produced by: Ram Bergman, Mark G. Mathis
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Brendan Frye
- Nora Zehetner as Laura Dannon
- Matt O'Leary as The Brain
- Noah Fleiss as Tugger
- Lukas Haas as The Pin
- Meagan Good as Kara
- Emilie de Ravin as Emily Kostich
- Noah Segan as Dode
- Brian J. White as Brad Bramish
- Richard Roundtree as Assistant V.P. Trueman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Bergman Lustig Productions
- Budget: $475,000
- Box office: $3,900,000
- Themes: drug dealer, high school, california, ex-girlfriend, investigation, manipulation, lone wolf, halloween party, murder, disappearance
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