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Release Date:
14 September 2007 (USA)
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Tagline:
How many wrongs to make it right?
Plot:
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jodie Foster | ... | Erica Bain | |
| Terrence Howard | ... | Detective Mercer | |
| Nicky Katt | ... | Detective Vitale | |
| Naveen Andrews | ... | David Kirmani | |
| Mary Steenburgen | ... | Carol | |
| Ene Oloja | ... | Josai | |
| Luis Da Silva Jr. | ... | Lee | |
| Blaze Foster | ... | Cash | |
| Rafael Sardina | ... | Reed | |
| Jane Adams | ... | Nicole | |
| Gordon MacDonald | ... | Murrow | |
| Zoë Kravitz | ... | Chloe | |
| John Magaro | ... | Ethan | |
| Victor Colicchio | ... | Cutler | |
| Jermel Howard | ... | Thug on Subway |
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality.
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Runtime:
122 min | Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:18 |
Finland:K-15 |
South Korea:15 |
Ireland:16 |
Norway:15 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Sweden:15 |
Netherlands:16 |
Australia:MA |
South Africa:16LV |
Hong Kong:IIB |
USA:R (certificate #43480) |
Germany:16 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) |
Malaysia:18PL |
France:-12 |
Spain:18 |
Philippines:R-13 |
Taiwan:R-18 |
Japan:R-15 |
Brazil:16 |
New Zealand:R16
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Portia de Rossi was considered for the role of Erica Bain, but turned it down. Kate Beckinsale was offered the role of Erica but turned it down. Neve Campbell did an audition for the role of Erica. Josie Davis tried out for the role of Erica.
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Goofs:
Miscellaneous: When Erica listens to her recording from the subway, the volume indicator on her recorder continues to flash even when the recording has stopped and there is nothing audible anymore.
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[first lines]
Erica: [voiceover, doing her radio show] I'm Erica Bain. And as *you* know, I walk the city. I bitch and moan about it. I walk and watch and listen, a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city. Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dmitri Panchenko swims his morning laps...
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Erica: [voiceover, doing her radio show] I'm Erica Bain. And as *you* know, I walk the city. I bitch and moan about it. I walk and watch and listen, a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city. Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dmitri Panchenko swims his morning laps...
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Movie Connections:
References Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Soundtrack:
Everybody Can You Feel The Vibe
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FAQ
What is the music from the trailer?I saw this movie and loved the song they played in the beginning and end but can't find it anywhere!! Anyone know what it's called? (Not the song from the trailer but in the actual movie.)
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"I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the f***in' toilet", says Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), in "Taxi Driver". He wants to protect the young prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) from some pigs, and give her a better future. 31 years later, Iris is a popular radio host whose fiancé (Naveen Andrews) is killed in a random attack. She decides to avenge him, and other helpless people, with her own hands.
If not for Jodie Foster's presence, I probably wouldn't bother watching "The Brave One" (even though I admire most of Neil Jordan's films). It's easy to call this a morally sick movie, because that's what is... but it's not sicker than any other bloody action thriller out there. Watching a "fragile" woman like Foster becoming Charles Bronson in skirts is both entertaining and (questionably) gratifying. Who's never fantasized: what if I could just kill all the scum around me? Like "Falling Down" and so many other flicks, "The Brave One" appeals to our lower instincts, and - mildly - makes us imagine what would we do in Jodie's shoes, and how "simple and satisfying" it'd be just to kill them all. That'd be the easiest, quickest 'solution' to our nightmares, and on a second look, that's not as sick as we'd think... just desperate and cathartic.
Far from being a great movie or intellectually instigating as, say, "Dogville", "The Brave One" is worth seeing for Jodie's performance and for its unapologetic badassery in times of false, excessive morality. 6.5/10.