Harry Brown
Release date: 11 November 2009
Running time: 103 mins
Director: Daniel Barber
Starring: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Iain Glen, Charlie Creed-Miles
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Screen legend Michael Caine is an OAP-turned-vigilante as he hunts down the killers of his best friend on a rough London housing estate.
Retired Royal Marine and widower Harry Brown (Michael Caine) lives an uneventful life shooting the breeze and playing chess with his mate Leonard (David Bradley) in their local boozer in Elephant & Castle. The neighbourhood, however, is less than idyllic, having become a hotbed of drug dealing and violent crime for savage rival gangs. The local law enforcement, in the form of detectives Frampton (Emily Mortimer) and Hickock (Charlie Creed-Miles), seem to do little more than deliver bad news when a shooting or knife attack claims another young life. However, when Leonard is murdered by one of the gangs and the police are powerless to prosecute, Harry decides to take the law into his own hands as he quietly prepares for payback and begins his merciless hunt for the killers.
Screenplay: Gary Young
Distributor: Lionsgate
You should see it because: Caine's compelling portrayal of Harry has already earned rave reviews and comparisons to his powerhouse performance in 1971 classic Get Carter.
See it if you liked: Falling Down (1993), Gran Torino (2008), The Wrestler (2008)
