![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The underrated Barry Pepper is a dynamo as Brogan's oldest friend who alternately envies his lifestyle and feels guilty about it. He's a natural charmer who coasted on the easy life of the streets until his luck ran out. ![]() His initial confidence is lost, but restored somewhat by love. Norton leads the ensemble as a man whose bravado gives way to fear and doubt as his hours slip by. cross its boundary, it allows Monty's dad to conjecture an alternate reality. Lee represents all the boroughs of New York City and when Brogans Jr. The film opens with the twin laser lights which memorialized the 6th month since 9/11 also symbolizing hope and redemption in Monty's future, just as the excavation at ground zero below Slaughtery's apartment can be seen as a reflection of the guilt he feels over his friend's wrong turn. Spike Lee adds to Benioff's story by making New York City a true character in his ensemble. As true feelings are made known and alternate plans made for Monty, dawn and dad appear to take Monty into incarceration or. Monty laughs it off and includes her, and soon the group is ensconced in a private booth drinking champagne. Nikolai's club is an exclusive joint and Jacob is alarmed when Mary spies him and begs for his influence in getting her in. Monty's own narration fills in the gaps about his father 'with his endless grief' and the city he grew up in, a bigoted soliloquy played to a shaving mirror. We see Slaughtery on the job as a successful trader while Jacob sweats resisting the charms of student Mary D'Annuzio (Anna Paquin, "X-Men"). Monty and his friends will each have a revelation during their night of decadent partying with the oldest relationship undergoing the most strenuous test.īenioff establishes male friendships in the present, while building the background of Monty and Naturelle in flashbacks. He has dinner with his widowed dad (Brian Cox, "The Ring") at the bar his dad owns (and now rues having saved with his son's drug money), then heads with his friends to the club owned by the Brighton Beach Russian gangsters who supplied his merchandise. He visits Jacob at his job teaching teenagers, rounds up Slaughtery and asks Naturelle to wear her silver dress. A tour de force of ensemble acting, "25th Hour" explores the responsibilities of relationships.īrogan spends his last day preparing for a party that Kostya (Tony Siragusa, HBO's "Inside the NFL") insists he must attend at Uncle Nikolai's club. Novelist David Benioff adapts his novel about the 'what might have been' of Monty Brogan's life and director Spike Lee uses September 11 to add a parallel for the city Brogan's spent it in in their joint melancholy reflection. On his last day of freedom, Monty contemplates the "25th Hour." Slaughtery also suspects Monty's loving girlfriend, Naturelle (Rosario Dawson, "Men in Black II"), for having blown the whistle that resulted in a seven year jail term, and makes Monty begin to doubt Naturelle himself. His friends, Slaughtery (Barry Pepper, "Knockaround Guys") and Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Red Dragon") love him dearly, but regret having allowed him to become successful - as a drug dealer. Monty Brogan (Edward Norton, "Red Dragon") is a great guy and a scrapper, just like the horribly abused dog he saves and names Doyle as the film begins. ![]()
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