The Brothers Bloom
(USA, 2008, 114 minutes)
A sibling team of conmen sets up an elaborate sting on a ditzy heiress, but she begins to relish the adventure too much and one of the brothers falls in love with her. Sparklingly inventive combination of heist movie, screwball comedy, metafictional narrative and romance that shouldn't really work but does thanks to inspired writing, virtuoso handling and strong performances.
Summit Entertainment and Endgame Entertainment present a Ram Bergman production.
Starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo; Rinko Kikuchi; with Maximilian Schell; and Robbie Coltrane.
Directed and written by Rian Johnson; produced by Ram Bergman, James D. Stern; music by Nathan Johnson; director of photography (Modern Videofilm, Panavision), Steve Yedlin; production designer, Jim Clay; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor; film editor, Gabriel Wrye.
A sibling team of conmen sets up an elaborate sting on a ditzy heiress, but she begins to relish the adventure too much and one of the brothers falls in love with her. Sparklingly inventive combination of heist movie, screwball comedy, metafictional narrative and romance that shouldn't really work but does thanks to inspired writing, virtuoso handling and strong performances.
Summit Entertainment and Endgame Entertainment present a Ram Bergman production.
Starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo; Rinko Kikuchi; with Maximilian Schell; and Robbie Coltrane.
Directed and written by Rian Johnson; produced by Ram Bergman, James D. Stern; music by Nathan Johnson; director of photography (Modern Videofilm, Panavision), Steve Yedlin; production designer, Jim Clay; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor; film editor, Gabriel Wrye.
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