Brick

"A detective story."

Apr 14 2006 R 1h 50m
Action, Crime, Drama

After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.

Plot

The lonely teenager Brendan finds his former girlfriend Emily dead in the entrance of a tunnel of sewage and recalls her phone call two days ago, when she said to him that she was in trouble. Brendan, who still loved Emily, met bad elements of his high-school trying to contact her, and when he succeeded, she told him that she was OK. He hides her body in the tunnel and decides to investigate the meaning and connection of four words, including "brick" and "pin", that Emily told him to find who killed her. Using the support of his nerd friend Brain, he successively meets the small time drug dealers Kara, Dode, Brad Bramish, Laura and Tugger, to reach the teenager powerful drug dealer The Pin. Slowly, Brendan unravels the motives why Emily was killed and plots a revenge.

Written by

Rian Johnson

Directed by

Rian Johnson

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Bergman Lustig Productions, Focus Features

Languages

English

Awards

11 wins & 23 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
113,775
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
72
Popularity
NA