# Brick (2006)

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**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Drama, Mystery, Crime
**Directed by**: Rian Johnson
**Written by**: Rian Johnson
**Starring**: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Matt O'Leary, Noah Fleiss, Lukas Haas, Meagan Good

> *A detective story.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

October rain drums metal lockers. A dead cellphone rattles inside a locker. A teen traces the phone’s last ping to a drug runner’s locker, then steps past the hallway’s fluorescent glare into the school’s shadowed underbelly.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, outsider, slow-burn

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