The 25e hour (film, 2002)
See also: the 25th hour (homonymy)
the 25e hour ( 25th Hour ) is a film of Spike Lee, left in 2002.
Synopsis
At the beginning of film, Brogan is stopped in possession of an important quantity of Héroïne, and is condemned to seven years of prison. It spends its last day of freedom under Caution while trailing with his two better friends, Jakob Elinsky (Hoffman) Frank Slaughtery (Pepper), his father (Cox), and his boyfriend, Naturelle Riviera (Dawson). During a long night of festival, he reconsiders with his life, where and when he missed to it stage coach, how its imprisonment will touch its close relations and how to survive in Prison. The film is interested in the characters of the life of Brogan : Elinsky and Slaughtery try to support it, but are secretly constrained that it carried out a so dangerous life and amorale ; his/her father feels guilty what arrived at its fils ; Natural fear has of remaining in couple with a man emprisonné ; Brogan cannot be prevented from thinking that it is it which denounced it.
There is also an adventure mineure : Elinsky, professor with the college, do not manage to contain its sexual attraction for one of its pupils (Paquin), who is by chance in the nightclub where Brogan has fun the festival.
Data sheet
- Title: the 25e hour or 24 hours before the night
- English Titer: The 25th Hour
- Realization: Spike Lee
- Scenario: David Benioff, according to his novel éponyme.
- Production: Spike Lee and Tobey Maguire
- Music: Terence Blanchard and Bruce Springsteen
- Photography: Rodrigo Prieto
- Assembly: Unknown
- Country of origin: the United States
- Format: Colors - SDR
- Kind: Drama, police
- Lasted: 135 minutes
- Comings out date:
- December 16th 2002: The first USA
- January 10th 2003: exploitation the USA, Canada
- March 12th 2003: France
- April 2nd 2003: French-speaking Switzerland
- April 9th 2003: Belgium
Distribution
- Edward Norton : Monty Brogan
- Philip Seymour Hoffman: Jacob Elinsky
- Barry Pepper: Frank Slaughtery
- Rosario Dawson: Natural Riviera
- Anna Paquin: Mary D' Annunzio
- Brian Cox: James Brogan
- Tony Siragusa: Kostya Novotny
- Levani Outchaneichvili : Uncle Nikolai
- Tony Devon: Agent Allen
- Misha Kuznetsov: Senka Valghobek
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.: Agent Flood
- Michael Broom: Agent Cunningham
- Patrice O' Neal: Khari
- Al Palagonia: Salvatore Dominick
- Aaron Stanford : Marcuse
Around film
- the 25e hour is one of first films to include in its scenario the terrorist attacks of the September 11th, 2001.
Rewards
Nominated with the Golden Globe.
See too
- the 25 {{E}} hour on Internet Movie Database
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