Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/15/2006(USA
Release Date: 05/08/2007
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 119 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Weinstein Company
A petty thief is the link between a well-to-do businessman and a single mother struggling to get by in his edgy, emotional
drama.
Will Francis (
Jude Law) is a successful landscape architect who runs an upscale business with his friend
Sandy (
Martin Freeman) in the King's Cross section of London, a neighborhood that has long been plagued by crime and poverty but has lately become the target of a major gentrification program.
Will's longtime girlfriend is
Liv (
Robin Wright Penn), a lovely woman troubled by a lack of communication between herself and her husband and emotional problems with their teenage daughter,
Bea (
Poppy Rogers), who can't sleep and is obsessed with gymnastics. A thief has broken into
Will and
Sandy's office not once but twice, taking
Will's laptop and the company's computer equipment, and
Will begins spending his evenings at the shop in hopes of catching the culprit in action. The burglar strikes a third time, and while giving chase,
Will sees him make his way into a shabby apartment building.
Will learns the criminal is
Miro (
Rafi Gavron), a 15-year-old refugee from Bosnia. Without revealing what he knows,
Will makes the acquaintance of
Amira (
Juliette Binoche),
Miro's widowed mother -- a Bosnian refugee who makes a living as a seamstress. As
Will starts bringing
Amira business on a regular basis, the two begin an affair which continues even as
Will maintains his relationship with
Liv.
Breaking and Entering was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Anthony Minghella; it was his first project made from his own original script since
Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
