Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (2010)

Love. Murder. Revenge.

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Date of release
2010-09-13
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (117)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Director
Rowan Joffé

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $1.8M
  • Budget: $12M
  • Earned 0.2× its budget
  • Based on: Brighton Rock
  • Filmed in: London

Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film written and directed by Rowan Joffé and loosely based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel of the same name. The film stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Helen Mirren.

Production

Rowan Joffé was originally uninterested in the project, which as first proposed was to be a remake of the 1948 film. After re-reading the novel, however, Joffé "fell absolutely in love with the character of Rose" and convinced the studio to let him adapt the novel directly. Joffe later explained why he did his own adaptation of the novel:

The novel was worthy of a contemporary adaptation. In fact, it makes it almost more dutiful as a filmmaker if you love the novel, to bring it to life without the restriction of censorship. I mean, a lot of the Catholicism was cut out of the original film because they didn’t want to offend Catholics...

Apropos of the location, Pinkie kills Spicer by shoving a stick of Brighton rock candy down his throat.

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