Harry Brown

2010 • 102 minutes

About this movie

Set in modern-day Britain, HARRY BROWN follows one man’s (Sir Michael Caine) journey through a chaotic world where drugs are the currency of the day and guns run the streets. A modest law-abiding citizen, Harry Brown is a retired Marine and a widower who lives alone on a depressed housing estate. His only company is his best friend Leonard (David Bradley). When Leonard is murdered by a gang of thugs, Harry feels compelled to act and is forced to dispense his own brand of justice. As he bids to clean up the run-down estate where he lives, his actions bring him into conflict with the police, led by investigating officer DCI Frampton (Emily Mortimer) and Charlie Creed-Miles. © 2009 Harry Brown Film Limitied and UK Film Council. All Rights Reserved

Ratings and reviews

Good acting and a strong plot, a decent twist at the end. Cain is good. It is on par with Gran Torino from Clint Eastwood, no doubt. I think the pacing is uneven, and the atmosphere a little claustrophobic, but I like the symbolism in the juxtaposition of youth and experience in the direction (e.g. youth with apparently boundless capacity vs elderly with apparently no recourse).