Bring Them Down

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Bring Them Down
Directed byChristopher Andrews
Screenplay byChristopher Andrews
Story by
  • Christopher Andrews
  • Jonathan Hourigan
Produced by
  • Ivana MacKinnon
  • Jacob Swan Hyam
  • Ruth Treacy
  • Julianne Forde
  • Jean-Yves Roubin
  • Cassandre Warnauts
Starring
CinematographyNick Cooke
Edited byGeorge Cragg
Music by Hannah Peel
Production
companies
Distributed byMubi
Release dates
  • 8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)(TIFF)
  • 7 February 2025 (2025-02-07)(United Kingdom, Ireland, and United States)
Running time
105 minutes [1]
Countries
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Belgium
Languages
  • English
  • Irish

Bring Them Down is a 2024 thriller film written and directed by Christopher Andrews (in his feature directorial debut), starring Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Aaron Heffernan, Conor McNeill, Susan Lynch, and Colm Meaney.

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The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2024. Its UK premiere was at the London Film Festival. and its set to release in theaters worldwide on February 7, 2025 by Mubi.

Cast

Production

Funding for the film came from Mubi with additional funding from Screen Ireland, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the UK Global Screen Fund which is financed by the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI. [2] It is a European co-production with producers Ivana MacKinnon of the UK's Wild Swim Films; UK Producer Jacob Swan Hyam; Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde of Ireland's Tailored Films and Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts of Belgium's Frakas Productions. [3]

Casting

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott replaced Mescal and Burke in the cast in February 2023. [4]

Filming

Principal photography took place in Ireland in February 2023. [5]

Release

Bring Them Down had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2024. [1]

It will be released in cinemas on 7 February 2025. [6]

Reception

Bring Them Down won Best Film at Fantastic Fest, the Fipresci Prize at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Festival and Best Screenplay at the Rome Film Festival. [7] [8]

The film is certified 93% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. [9]

Andrews won Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards in November 2024, where the film was also nominated for Best Debut Producer. [10] [11]

Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [12]

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