Brothers (2024 film)

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Brothers
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Directed by Max Barbakow
Screenplay by Macon Blair
Story by Etan Cohen
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Quyen Tran
Edited by
Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams
Production
companies
Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios
Release date
  • October 10, 2024 (2024-10-10)
Running time
89 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Brothers is a 2024 American crime comedy film directed by Max Barbakow with a screenplay by Macon Blair from a story by Etan Cohen. The film stars Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, Jennifer Landon, Brendan Fraser, and Glenn Close.

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Produced by Legendary Pictures, the film was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios in select theaters on October 10, 2024, before debuting on Amazon Prime Video a week later on October 17.

Plot

Two brothers - Moke and Jady - rob a warehouse, but only Jady gets caught and spends time in prison. While inside, he meets up and strikes deals with an Officer Farful.

Moke is working at a restaurant, but is fired because he didn't disclose his criminal past. His wife is pregnant.

Farful beats Jady up at his place, and threatens him for some emeralds, but doesn't find them. The brothers decide to go on a road trip for the emeralds. The brothers visit Bethesda, a lady Jady met online. They find an Orangutan there smoking a cigarette and decide to leave.

They go to a hotel, and find their mom there. She talks about a heist many years ago when her partner swallowed some emeralds before dying in a car crash. She had buried him then and got out of the country. She claims to be dying, with less than a year to live. They agree on one last heist to acquire the buried emeralds, now worth $4 million.

Meanwhile, Farful gets to Bethesda's place and she tells him about the brothers.

The mom and sons get an excavator and go to the plot to dig up the body of her crime partner who died with emeralds in his stomach. They get the emeralds but are spotted by golf players, but manage to get away. They bury the body again in a different location, and Moke discovers that Jady impersonated the "Labor and Employment Bureau" to get him fired from his job. The brothers fight, but Farful arrives with a gun and asks for the emeralds. The mom runs away with the emeralds and they all chase her, but she gets into a car and drives away. Farful drives a car with the brothers in the back seat, but the brothers get into another fight and a random kick knocks Farful unconscious.

The mom sells the emeralds for cash, but the kids are able to locate her and demand their share of the loot. She runs to an abandoned mall with her kids in pursuit. Farful appears there with a gun and is able to secure the bag of cash. But when he opens the bag, a container of pepper spray shoots at his eyes. As he fires more shots in agony, a Christmas tree falls on him and he dies. Hearing the gunshots, the mall is surrounded with cops. The mom takes the gun and asks her sons to flee, and confesses that she's not actually dying.

At Judge Farfel's house, Moke gives the judge his share of cash in return for his brother's gun with incriminating fingerprints.

Moke has Thanksgiving dinner with his family, and is joined by Jady, who says he has seen a lawyer and created a trust under Moke's daughter's name for $2 million.

A year later, the brothers go to see their mom in jail, where she gets to see her new granddaughter. The brothers go outside, and Jady opens his hand to reveal two emeralds that he had hidden all the while.

Cast

Production

On February 28, 2019, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment had purchased the project in a competitive bidding war, with Etan Cohen set to write the screenplay. Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage were attached to star in the film as well as produce alongside Andrew Lazar. The film was said to be tonally in the vein of Twins (1988), which centered on two unlikely twins played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. [3] Macon Blair was later attached to direct the film and co-write the script with Cohen on April 30, 2020. [4] In June 2021, Glenn Close joined the main cast, with Max Barbakow directing. [5] Two months later, Brendan Fraser and Taylour Paige were added to the main cast. [6] [7] Principal photography took place in August 2021 in Atlanta. [6]

Release

In October 2023, Amazon MGM Studios acquired distribution rights to the film. [8] The film was released in select theaters in the United States on October 10, 2024, before debuting on Amazon Prime Video on October 17, 2024. [9] [10]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 44% of 25 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.6/10. [11] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [12]

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  2. ↑ Pitman, Robert (October 21, 2024). "Marisa Tomei's New Crime Comedy Is The Perfect Reminder To Watch This $64M Movie That Won Her An Oscar 31 Years Ago". ScreenRant . Retrieved November 24, 2024.
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