IMDb plot summary: Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, and Rosario Dawson.
I knew next to nothing about this film before I started watching it, but it's kind of stunning. It's a whole different angle to the crime drama genre, which I too often feel tells the same exact story over and over again. This story not only takes place during a very unexplored window of time (between the arrest and the prison) but also tells its story in a very personal and beautiful way. The final 10 minutes or so are very emotionally moving. Definitely a movie that took me by surprise, but it's pretty great.
4 stars.
How it entered my Flickchart:
25th Hour > Happy Christmas
25th Hour > Man on Wire
25th Hour < Black Panther
25th Hour < Whale Rider
25th Hour > The Pirates of Penzance
25th Hour < Jack Goes Boating
25th Hour > CBGB
25th Hour > The Muppets
25th Hour > Hawking
25th Hour > Sanjuro
Final spot: #579 out of 2841.
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