25th Hour

    25th Hour
    2002

    Synopsis

    In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.

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    Cast

    • Edward NortonMonty Brogan
    • Philip Seymour HoffmanJacob Elinsky
    • Barry PepperFrank Slaughtery
    • Rosario DawsonNaturelle Riviera
    • Anna PaquinMary D'Annuzio
    • Brian CoxJames Brogan
    • Isiah Whitlock Jr.Agent Flood
    • Tony SiragusaKostya Novotny
    • Levan UchaneishviliUncle Nikolai
    • Tony DevonAgent Allen

    Recommendations

    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      The result is a film of sadness and power, the first great 21st century movie about a 21st century subject.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      25th Hour struck me as one of the best movies of 2002, but it's also a film that will strike some of its audience as ethically dubious or threatening.
    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      The film persuades us to think long and hard about what prison means, and Lee has shaped it like a poem that builds into an epic lament, especially in a beautiful and tragic closing that risks absurdity to achieve the sublime.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      Isn't Lee's most personal piece, but it may very well be his most mature.
    • 75

      Miami Herald

      Lee delivers a beautiful evocation of the American Dream in its simplest, purest form.
    • 75

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      It could have been more taut, could have been harder, but 25th Hour still resonates with power and poetry.
    • 67

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Lee doesn't seem to have the slightest sympathy for his hero, no particular point is made, and the whole exercise seems cold and empty.
    • 67

      Portland Oregonian

      An engaging if not riveting film based on David Benioff's adaptation of his own novel. It's not nearly Lee's best picture, and it's guilty of a few wrong turns that only a confident filmmaker could make, but it's assured and, perhaps more importantly, reassuring.

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