
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 tol... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Palo Alto WeeklyJeanne AufmuthA richly textured and abstract teen thriller. |
| Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)Josh LarsenJohnson's triumph is not that he applies noir style to a teen setting, but that he uses it to give teen concerns - love, drugs, friendship -- a fresh and vital forum. |
| Metromix.comMatt PaisA brilliant way of converting the cryptic communication and allegiances of high school into a potboiling mystery. You'll leave the theater giddy with excitement. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesWhatever it is, wherever it is, whenever it is, it's not remotely like anything else out there. |
| The Film YapNick RogersNoir fits "Brick" like a glove, stylishly injecting assured tough talk, vice-grip tension, black humor, striking sound design and gunshots sounding like locker doors slammed on options. A great detective story and, for some, a high-school flashback. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasManages to be visually arresting, packed with geeky allusions to everything from Raymond Chandler to "Blue Velvet." |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenRian Johnson's flashy cinematic stunt grafts the hard-boiled argot of Dashiell Hammett onto an upscale Southern California high school. |
| FilmStew.comKevin BiggersForget the media-saturated affectations that surrounded Brokeback Mountain and Crash. The real vicious truth is the state of the American teenager. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyYou can't deny the fellow who made it has talent. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinIf Brick isn't totally successful, it does make Johnson a director to watch. |