Brick (film)

Brick
Sundance release poster
Directed by	Rian Johnson
Written by	Rian Johnson
Produced by	Ram Bergman Mark G. Mathis
Starring	Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nora Zehetner Noah Fleiss Matt O'Leary Noah Segan Meagan Good Emilie de Ravin Richard Roundtree Lukas Haas
Cinematography	Steve Yedlin
Edited by	Rian Johnson
Music by	Nathan Johnson
Production company	Bergman Lustig Productions
Distributed by	Focus Features
Release dates	January 21, 2005 (2005-01-21) (Sundance) April 7, 2006 (2006-04-07) (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$450,000[1]
Box office	$3.9 million[2]

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written 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.

The film won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival,^[1] and received positive reviews from critics. It has come to be regarded as a cult classic.^[3]