| The Brave One (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt, Mary Steenburgen
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 4,690
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 085391139294
UPC: 085391139294
EAN: 0085391139294
ASIN: B0010HOZW6
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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Product Description
After surviving an attack and watching her fiancÂe die, a woman seeks vengeance while the police try to stop her.
Amazon.com
Neil Jordan's somber The Brave One is a lot of things. A reflective movie about a crime victim's sense of dislocation and isolation from her own life following a harrowing trauma, the film will strike a chord with a lot of people who have known violence. The Brave One is also a provocative drama about the nature of justice, a theme explored endlessly in American movies that typically find law enforcement wanting. In Jordan's film, however, the conflict between instinctive vigilantism and legal protocols is approached with more deliberateness and complexity than usual. Finally, despite its seriousness of purpose, The Brave One, to a certain extent, is drearily tethered to the old atrocity-and-revenge genre, bumping along to the familiar, Death Wish-like rhythms of an avenger seeking successive conflicts with bad guys he or she can blow away. Somewhat at cross-purposes, The Brave One stars Jodie Foster in a shattering performance as Erica Bain, a popular essayist on a public radio station in New York. In love and engaged to David (Naveen Andrews), a doctor, Erica and her fiancé are brutally attacked one night by a gang of thugs. David is killed but Erica survives, only to find herself a stranger in her own skin, facing down her fears by shooting violent criminals. With the city riveted by her anonymous actions, Erica becomes an object of curiosity for a police detective (an excellent Terrence Howard) disillusioned by his own struggles to protect the innocent from truly evil men. Jordan's previous films (The Crying Game, Breakfast on Pluto) resonate with The Brave One's most interesting angle, i.e., that each of us possesses a hidden element in our identities that comes out in extreme circumstances, making us wonder who we really are. It's all excellent food for thought, but the film squanders much of its significance by thrusting Erica into numerous, outlandish situations in which her only alternative is to put a bullet in a bad guy. The result is a smart film tediously structured like a disposable B movie. --Tom Keogh
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 Surprisingly Good August 9, 2010
J. Hammel
I honestly didn't expect to like this movie. I figured it would just be silly and over the top, but for the what it was, I thought it handled the emotions and unfolding events as realistically as it could without feeling like a comic book movie. One of my faves, def check it out.
Brave girl. July 28, 2010
ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE)
The Brave One starring Jodie Foster is a powerful and revenge-seeking drama about a woman who's forever changed by a harrowing trauma. Foster is a superb actress in every sense of the word, her eyes are magical - you feel her pain and anguish. Some of the subplots are a bit outrageous and can be too violent at times but overall, The Brave One is worth watching. Enjoy!
A woman's scorn? July 27, 2010
bvr (wv)
I like Jodie Foster & it is a new twist (female) on an old theme.
Feels Great to Feel Understood July 25, 2010
Bama
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie for me is so real. I don't know how the writer and Jodie Foster did it, but somehow they wrote and acted out so realistically the very real feeling, fears, and thoughts so many of us have who have been violently attacked. I am amazed that they got so much of what really happens in the heart and mind of someone who doesn't physically die from an attack like this. I would have thought it impossible to write or act something like this so realistically without personally going through it in real life. So I wonder if maybe they did at some point in their lives because the writers and Jodie Foster did an AMAZING job. I wish I could personally thank the writer and Jodie Foster for doing this "movie" which is actually more of a DOCUMENTARY from my view. Thank you for helping others who see the movie, understand us better and for us(the ones who have been attacked like this and..."survived??"..) thank you for helping us understand ourselves more... or I guess for helping us feel that someone really does understand and really does "get it". I hope it helps the people who knew us before, understand why we can't just put something like this behind us and leave it in the past and understand how it kills the person we were and are now a completely different person and that we will never be the person we once were. I hope it helps the people who knew us before to understand that a person can be killed even if they are still physically alive, dead but still breathing. The person I used to be is dead. It's unrealistic and unfair for people that knew us before to expect us to "put it behind us and leave it in the past" and to expect us to come around and get back to being the person we used to be. That person is as dead and gone as I would be if I had been physically killed.
Thank you writers and thank you Jodie for understanding, or at least making some of us, finally at least FEEL understood. This movie was and still is so very therapeutic to me somehow. Somehow I don't feel so alone and cold or dead inside.
Jodie Foster does it again! July 21, 2010
moviefan2011
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Jodie fan I avoided this movie after reading bad reviews. Finally watched it last night and think it may be one of her finest performances ever. She is flawless. The movie left me on the edge of my seat. As a bleeding heart liberal I actually enjoyed her avenging angel story and didn't feel at all offended--I think the people who disliked her were going for political correctness. The story was riveting, the violence too real at moments to keep my eyes open, and the ending soared!
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