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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Bruce A. Evans
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Actors:
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Kevin Costner,
Lindsay Crouse,
Ruben Santiago-Hudson,
Aisha Hinds,
Traci Dinwiddie,
Michael Cole,
Yasmine Delawari,
Demi Moore,
Dane Cook,
William Hurt,
Marg Helgenberger,
Danielle Panabaker,
Jason Lewis,
Reiko Aylesworth,
Matt Schulze
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)92.5
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Plot Summary:
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Earl Brooks is a approvingly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Fingerprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing beneath lead representing two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to denouement again. When he does kill a a handful of while they are making passion, he is seen and photographed by someone who also his own end and murder totem. In a parallel fairy tale, the police detective investigating the mu... rder is having problems of her own. She is affluent through a messy break-up and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from reform school and is after her.
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Mr. Brooks
Claudia PuigWho knew there was a 12-step program for murder addicts? And who would guess a predilection for manslaughter could be passed from one generation to the next? Those are only a couple of the ridiculous plot points in the inane Mr. Brooks, starring Kevin Costner, William Hurt and Demi Moore, all of whom should have known better than to take part in this silly spectacle. You can't really fault Dane Cook, in his first serious role, though he overplays his wannabe killer in a particularly ham-fisted fashion. Costner and Hurt together play Mr. Brooks in a device that is clunky from the start. Brooks is a rich businessman and philanthropist who, when the film opens, is being honored as Man of the Year. His evil alter ego is played by William Hurt, ...
Mr. Brooks
John AndersonIn this ogre-ridden, ocean-going summer of sequels, Mr. Brooks reps a classic case of counter-programming. Original, adult and starring Kevin Costner as a serial killer, this suspense thriller with a smirk may not break any B.O. records, but it should provide discriminating audiences the antidote they seek to Clooneys-and-Caribbean fever, while giving Costner's career a considerable kick in the credibility department.
Costner's mere presence in this noirish Bruce A. Evans-helmed psycho-drama -- which Costner also produced, with longtime partner Jim Wilson and co-writer Raynold Gideon -- is an attention grabber. Although one of the actor's best performances was as murderer Butch Haynes in Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World, Mr. Brooks takes a tongue-in-cheek...
Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner and William Hurt star as different aspects of a conflicted character in Bruce A Evans's multi-faceted psycho thriller
Clean-cut, earnest, and just a little bland, Kevin Costner has constructed a highly successful career playing the gentle pioneer, the homespun baseball enthusiast, the unassuming hero and the dishy man-next-door. As appealing as this image may be, it is also readily amenable to subversion: in the twisty thriller No Way Out (1986), Costner's outward sincerity is used to conceal a treacherous double-agent from characters and viewers alike; and once again in Mr Brooks he preserves his well-managed image of respectability only by covering over a trail of murder.
Recently named 'Man of the Year', Mr Earl Bro...
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