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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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Produced with the highest levels of competency and film-making craft...but do we really need to see this story again?
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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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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 Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
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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Not your typical product placement: In the scene where Mercer visits Erica's apartment, a container of Israeli-produced sea salt is visible showing the Hebrew-language side to the camera. The Hebrew words melekh-yam (sea salt) can be seen. This is a product not widely available in the US, only through speciality and kosher stores, so perhaps it was purchased by a set dresser near the Brooklyn studios.
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Continuity: The first time Erica goes to the Police Station and is asked to wait she is wearing a white T-Shirt under her hoody sweatshirt. When she walks out of the Police Station and into the Gun Shop, the white T-Shirt is now a red T-Shirt.
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Quotes:
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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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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:
Featured in "HBO First Look: The Brave One (#14.22)" (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Burning On Both Ends
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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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Police detective in New York City is befriended by a female talk-radio hostess who makes acerbic/introspective comments on daily life in the Big Apple; her past as the near-fatal victim of murderous street thugs connects in his mind with the current rash of celebrated vigilante killings...and if his hunch is right, will he be able to arrest someone he has come to admire? Despite a dreamy, somewhat disconnected narrative which gives the proceedings almost a surreal feeling, this violent urban thriller is absorbing and intriguing, if familiar. Jodie Foster is very capable in the role of this intense, mourning and benumbed woman who isn't quite sure what her feelings are regarding the low-life she kills, yet the character as conceived is tough for us to reach. Speaking in a low monotone (and grieving for her slain boyfriend in much the same way), Foster doesn't shake the audience up--and she doesn't propel the film forward. She is highly sympathetic and human, yet she seems to drift through this hellish jungle with a halo and a gun. Director Neil Jordan certainly stacks the deck against her, which should be enough to get viewers rooting for this modern-day "Ms. 45", however the picture remains aloof, detached. As the detective, Terrence Howard does well with an old-hat role, and the actors playing the punks are all quite convincing. There's a plot thread involving an i-phone recording of the beating Foster and her fiancée suffer which doesn't come off (it seems dropped in), and another scene with Foster saving a young woman from a pimp that feels sketchy. Still, the movie looks classy, has skillful editing and a satisfying wrap-up, and makes fine usage of Sarah McLachlan's song "Answer". **1/2 from ****