Brilliantly updating the hard boiled world of film noir to the sun-soaked streets of modern-day Southern California, Brick follows a smartly obsessed teenager student as he descends into his high school's drug underworld when his ex-girlfriend is mysteriously murdered. "Solidifying his reputation as one of the best actors of his generation, Joseph Gordon-Levitt evokes the pugnacious gumshoes of 40s and 50s noir, but adds a strain of youthful melancholy as a reminder that he's still in high school." (Onion A.V. Club) Filmmaker Rian Johnson won a Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, and made the film in twenty days, editing it on his home computer (not that you'd ever guess). "A Big Sleep with underage bozos, a Maltese Falcon where the stuff that dreams are made of rests in the lockers of a well-worn high school, Brick is a remarkable oddity, audacious and engaging." (Baltimore Sun) more at brickmovie.net
2006, color, 1 hour 50 minutes, USA