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Movie: Brick (2005)

• Director: Rian Johnson
• Release Date: 7 April 2006 (Canada)
• Run Time: 110 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Mystery  
• MPAA: Rated R for violent and drug content.

Tagline: A detective story.

Trivia: The caped costume that Lukas Haas wears through the movie is based upon the same outfit that Jonathan Frid wore in the cult 60′s TV classic "Dark Shadows" (1966).
 

Goofs: Continuity: In the car park scene with Tug, the sky changes in almost every shot. Puddles are also present.
 

“The lonely teenager Brendan finds his former girlfriend Emily dead in the entrance of a tunnel of sewage and recalls her phone call two days ago, when she said to him that she was in trouble. Brendan, who still loved Emily, met bad elements of his high-school trying to contact her, and when he succeeded, she told him that she was OK. He hides her body in the tunnel and decides to investigate the meaning and connection of four words, including “brick” and “pin”, that Emily told him to find who killed her. Using the support of his nerd friend Brain, he successively meets the small time drug dealers Kara, Dode, Brad Bramish, Laura and Tugger, to reach the teenager powerful drug dealer The Pin. Slowly, Brendan unravels the motives why Emily was killed and plots a revenge. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”