
Overview
Genre
Drama, ThrillerRelease Date
August 26, 2011 (Limited)MPAA Rating
RDuration
111 min.Studio
IFC FilmOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Rowan JoffeProducer
Paul WebsterScreenwriter
Rowan JoffeStarring
- Sam Riley as Pinkie
- Andrea Riseborough
- Helen Mirren as Ida
- John Hurt as Phil Corkery
- Sean Harris
- Nonso Anozie
Story
Based on Graham Greene's chilling 1938 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK is the hard-boiled, visually captivating debut film of Rowan Joffe. An official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, the film features an incredible cast of both British acting royalty and brilliant newcomers. Sam Riley (CONTROL) is the young anti-hero Pinkie, a cunning charmer trying to make his mark on the vicious gangland of Brighton. When a young waitress (Andrea Riseborough, who was nominated for 2 BIFAs for her breakthrough performance) stumbles on evidence that links Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing, he draws her into a conned romance to keep the loose end tied up. When Rose's world-weary boss (Oscar-winner Helen Mirren) becomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hanging around her charge, the tangled web becomes a deadly game of psychological cat-and-mouse- an atmostpheric mystery-noir that fully captures the mood of Greene's violent and sexually daring masterpiece.







