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| BRIGHTON ROCK |
Year: 2010
USA: IFC Films
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, John Hurt, Helen Mirren, Andy
Serkis, Sean Harris, Nonso Anozie, Steven Robertson, Maurice Roëves, Adrian Schiller, Steve Evets
Director: Rowan Joffe
Country: UK
USA & UK: 111 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, twice very
strong, and strong violence
USA Release Date: 26 August 2011 (Limited
Release)
UK Release Date: 4 February 2011
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Synopsis
Adapted from Graham Greene’s brilliant 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK
charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged
teenager.
Screenwriter Rowan Joffe’s debut feature BRIGHTON ROCK embraces
the classic elements of film noir and the British gangster film to
tell the story of Pinkie, a desperate youth who is hell bent on
clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime.
When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence
linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to
secure her silence.
The film stars up-and-coming British actors Sam Riley (CONTROL, ON
THE ROAD) and Andrea Riseborough (who has 3 films at this year’s
Toronto Film Festival, BRIGHTON ROCK, MADE IN DAGENHAM and NEVER LET
ME GO) as the young couple.
Helen Mirren and John Hurt co-star as two friends who set out to
save Rose from Pinkie’s deviant designs.
BRIGHTON ROCK is based on the iconic 1939 Graham Greene novel of
innocence and evil but the action has been updated to 1964 Britain,
the year the Mods and the Rockers were rioting across the South
Coast. The 60s were also the era of the great British gangster, the
kind of working class hero, the frightened and ambitious Pinkie
longs to be.
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