Brick is a neo-noir tale where all the suspects aren't old enough to legally buy alcohol. The plot centers around Brendan, our outcast sleuth, who is looking for the murderer of his ex-lover. His journey for the truth leads him into the seedy underworld of his high school's social elite. He finds himself entangled in the lives of stock characters of film noir, including a femme fatale who has her eyes on him, played by Nora Zehetner. Even though the film is set on the football fields of today, the dialogue harkens back to Humphrey Bogart with a cigarette in his mouth. And although all the houses look the same in this generic subarbian town, there is violence that is worthy of a Robert Mitchum flick. I enjoyed the film a lot and it even won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. See if you can figure out the mystery before Brendan does, gumshoe.
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