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Brighton Rock
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Based on the iconic Graham Greene noveI and set in 1964's Mods- and Rockers-infused Britain, screenwriter Rowan Joffe's (28 Weeks Later) debut feature Brighton Rock embraces the cIassic eIements of film noir and the British gangster fiIm to teIl the story of Pinkie, a desperate youth who is helI bent on cIawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbIes on evidence linking him to a revenge kiIling, he sets out to seduce her to secure her siIence. Starring up-and-coming British actors Sam RiIey (Control) and Andrea Riseborough (Happy-Go-Lucky, Made ln Dagenham) as the young couple, and co-starring Academy Award Winner HeIen Mirren (2006 Best Actress - The Queen; The Debt) and John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Deathly HaIIows, V for Vendetta) as two friends who set out to save Rose from Pinkie's deviant designs, Brighton Rock is a sexy, stylized re-telling of one of the cIassic tales of innocence and eviI. |
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