--- title: 'Brick (2005)' type: 'film' director: 'Rian Johnson' released: '2005-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/brick-2005' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Brick (2005) 2005 · 110 min · Drama, Crime, Mystery · United States ## Synopsis Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written, edited, and directed by Rian Johnson in his directorial debut, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Brick was distributed by Focus Features, and opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 7, 2006. The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story set in a California suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students. The film draws heavily in plot, characterization, and dialogue from hardboiled classics, especially those by Dashiell Hammett. The title refers to a block of heroin, compressed roughly to the size and shape of a brick. ## Credits - **Director:** [Rian Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/rian-johnson) - **Screenplay:** [Rian Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/rian-johnson) - **Editor:** [Rian Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/rian-johnson) - **Original Music Composer:** [Nathan Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-johnson) - **Producer:** [Ram Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ram-bergman) - **Director of Photography:** [Steve Yedlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-yedlin) ## Cast - [Reedy Gibbs](https://cinepixo.com/people/reedy-gibbs) - [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-gordon-levitt) - [Noah Fleiss](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-fleiss) - [Lukas Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/lukas-haas) - [Richard Roundtree](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-roundtree) - [Meagan Good](https://cinepixo.com/people/meagan-good) - [Emilie de Ravin](https://cinepixo.com/people/emilie-de-ravin) - [Brian J. White](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-j-white) - [Nora Zehetner](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-zehetner) - [Matt O'Leary](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-o-leary) - [Noah Segan](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-segan) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/brick-2005 Film facts: Wikidata (Q913439); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.