Brick follows the path of the hard-boiled noir mystery but wittily and bracingly immerses itself in a modern-day Southern California high school. Student Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin) prefers being an outsider and he stays that way until the day that his ex-girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin - Lost) vanishes. He becomes consumed with finding her and this single-minded determination thrusts him headlong into the colliding social hierarchy of the school - rich-girl femme fatales, intimidating jocks, geeks and stoners are all suspects in his search. But it's only by gaining acceptance into closely guarded inner circle of local dealer The Pin (Lukas Haas) that Brendan will be able to uncover the truth about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to. An original, absorbing mystery that will leave you spellbound.
You don't have to have read Dashiell Hammett's crime novels to have a sense of the cynical, hard-boiled style he helped forge in the 1920s and 30s. The definitive Humphrey... read more »
