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Genre: Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller
Director: Bruce A Evans
Cast: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook
Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Raynold Gideon
Executive Producer: Thomas Augsberger, Marc Schaberg, Adam Rosenfelt
Written By: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual
Running Time: 120 min.
Subtitles: English, French, Arabic
Audio: English - Dolby 5.1 Surround
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen, 1.78:1
PLOT:
Consider Mr. Brooks: a successful businessman; a generous philanthropist; a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he''''s perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret--he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him--until now. Earl Brooks is a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife and daughter--or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all?
REVIEWS:
"It should provide discriminating audiences the antidote they seek to Clooneys-and-Caribbean fever, while giving Costner''''s career a considerable kick in the credibility department."
-- Variety, John Anderson
"Mr. Brooks is a curious mix of the campy and the intelligent, of high concept and low psychology. In spite of these contradictions, or perhaps because of them, it works."
-- ReelViews, James Berardinelli
"The movie is so well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with himself, that, right up until the end, many people will probably be entertained by its intricately preposterous story."
-- New Yorker, David Den
"What compels isn''''t the overwrought plot, but the simpler things, the dynamics between the actors, the avuncularity between old pros Costner and Hurt and the class condescension between Costner and Cook. It has a fascinatin'''' rhythm."
-- Washington Post, Stephen Hunter
"[Costner] gives one of the best performances of his career."
-- Arizona Republic, Bill Muller
"Mr. Brooks is driven more by its characters than its plot. And several of those characters are fascinating."
-- Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jeff Strickler
"Mr. Brooks spins a web that will wrap you up in nightmares."
-- Rolling Stone, Peter Travers
"The film emerges as a subtle commentary on a disquieting aspect of our current culture -- a commentary on the nature of a masturbatory voyeurism and how it fosters heartlessness by turning other people into objects."
-- San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle
"Mr. Brooks is a killer."
-- Detroit News, Tom Long
"Slickly shot, coolly edited, oozing dark, deadpan humor, Mr. Brooks finds Costner at the top of his game. His moves are subtle, his expressions flat, his emotions clamped down, contained."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea
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