Harry Brown

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  • Opened April 30, 2010 
  • 1 hr 43 min
  • R | sexual content, strong violence, language throughout and drug use

  • Set in modern day Britain, HARRY BROWN follows one man’s journey through a chaotic world where teenage violence runs rampant. As a modest, law abiding citizen, Brown lives alone. His only companion is his best friend Leonard. When Leonard is killed, Brown reaches his breaking point. HARRY BROWN is a powerful, character driven thriller starring two-time Academy Award® winner Michael Caine in a tour-de-force performance. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ben Drew, Liam Cunningham
  • Director: Daniel Barber
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Suspense/Thriller

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Harry Brown has more to say, about aging, about old-school courtesy in collision with blind stupid violence, and about how sometimes pensioners on a fixed income get stuck in neighborhoods that turn dangerous. Read full review

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

Those of us who love Michael Caine have to recognize that his capacity for coldness is part of what makes him great. And in that respect, what he does in Harry Brown is something of a bookend to his extraordinary, and extraordinarily chilly, turn in Mike Hodges' cold-blooded 1971 Get Carter. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

This movie plays better than perhaps it should. Directed as a debut by Daniel Barber, it places story and character above manufactured "thrills" and works better. Read full review

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USA Today
| Claudia Puig

This portrait of the soldier as an old man is deeply moving. Read full review

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Michael Caine as Harry Brown in "Harry Brown."