Breaking In (2018 film)

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Breaking In
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Directed by James McTeigue
Screenplay byRyan Engle
Story byJaime Primak Sullivan
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Toby Oliver
Edited byJoseph Jett Sally
Music by Johnny Klimek
Production
companies
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • May 11, 2018 (2018-05-11)
Running time
88 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million [3]
Box office$51.4 million [3]

Breaking In is a 2018 American action thriller film [4] directed by James McTeigue and starring Gabrielle Union, who also produced the film alongside Will Packer, James Lopez, Craig Perry, and Sheila Taylor. The film follows a mother who must protect her children after the mansion of her recently deceased father is invaded by burglars.

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Principal photography began in July 2017 in Southern California. The film was released in the United States on May 11, 2018. It grossed over $51 million and received mixed reviews, with critics praising Union's performance but describing the film as having "thinly sketched characters and a slapdash plot." [5]

Plot

After her father Isaac's murder, Shaun Russell travels with her two children, daughter Jasmine and son Glover, to the house where she grew up. Shaun intends to settle her father's estate and sell the remotely located house, which has multiple security features, including a hand-held remote monitor. When they arrive, the security system is offline, but Jasmine soon reactivates it.

Unknown to the family, four offenders – Peter, Sam, Duncan, and the crime boss Eddie – were in the house before them, burglarizing it. Then Jasmine and Glover are taken hostage by Duncan while Shaun is locked outside and narrowly escapes an ambush from Peter. Duncan, the most violent and mentally unstable member of the group suggests torturing the children for the location of the safe but is objected by Eddie and Sam. Then another altercation sparks when Peter chases Shaun into the woods, where Peter gets knocked out by her. She leaves him bound and gagged, and uses the intercom to call the house. Eddie tells her they only came for the safe and the $4 million they know is inside; Isaac was under investigation by both the FBI and the District Attorney and Sam had learned that he liquidated his assets. The offenders have only 90 minutes from when they sever the phone lines before the security company contacts authorities, so they want to find it and leave quickly.

Concealed in the trees, Shaun sees Maggie, the realtor, arrive with paperwork for the house sale. Eddie greets her at the door, explaining Shaun had gone into town briefly, and attempts to invite her in. Maggie notices Shaun's purse on the table behind Eddie and knows something is wrong and politely declines. When Maggie turns her back on Eddie and leaves, Duncan ambushes her, and slits her throat, which outrages Eddie, as it means Shaun won't be as controllable.

Shaun eventually finds her way into the house, and gives instructions to Jasmine. When Eddie and Duncan next threaten the children, Jasmine leads them to the safe, which Shaun believes only Peter knows how to open. Shaun returns with Peter, a knife at his throat, demanding her family's release. Eddie shoots Peter dead, and Shaun flees back to the woods. Peter had a flash drive containing computer code on a necklace, which is all they needed to crack the safe. With all the money in a bag, Eddie now intends to burn the house down with the children in it to cover their escape, which Sam is uncomfortable with. Then Shaun creates a distraction by playing music with the portable hand-held security remote.

Duncan and Sam find Shaun on the roof during another rescue attempt. She hears a gunshot go off inside the house then jumps, pushing Sam off to his death, saving herself with the rope she tied to the roof. Then Shaun swipes Sam's truck keys sticking out of his pocket. Meanwhile, Jasmine frees herself and Glover, having cut through their bonds with a shard of glass from a broken lamp. The children escape the house and join their mother with Eddie in pursuit. Shaun uses Sam's truck to escape and mows down Duncan as they try to drive away, but Eddie blows out the truck tires, causing it to crash, foiling their escape.

Shaun and the kids lock themselves in the house, thinking it's all over, until they discover the bag of money is still inside. Shaun's husband Justin arrives unexpectedly and Eddie attacks him which convinces Shaun to unlock the door. He finds Shaun with the money bag, doused in gasoline and holding a lighter. Knowing that if he kills her, the lighter will ignite the bag, Eddie unloads his gun and Shaun lets him take the bag. Before Eddie could leave, am injured and bloodied up Duncan returns and stabs Eddie to death as revenge and Eddie dies from his injuries. Shaun tried to escape from Duncan, but he follows and beats her up as he threatens to rape her daughter Jasmine out of pure sadism. Jasmine and Glover go back to help heir dad until they hear from screams from their mother as Duncan attacks her. Jasmine arrives to save her mom and tries to knock Duncan down, but Duncan overpowers her and as he is about to rape her, he sees Shaun reaching out for a gun and kicks it away. Duncan then asks Shaun if she has anything to say and Shaun replies" you broke into the wrong house and stabs a stunned Duncan to death with a knife, killing him.

As police sirens and horns approach, Shaun goes outside to hold Justin and her kids close.

Cast

Production

Principal photography on Breaking In began July 2017 in Los Angeles and Malibu, California. [8] [9]

Universal Pictures released the first official trailer for the film on January 11, 2018. [10]

Reception

Box office

Breaking In grossed $46.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $4.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $51.1 million, against a production budget of $6 million. [3] In the United States and Canada, the film was released on May 11, 2018, alongside Life of the Party , and was projected to gross $14–17 million from 2,537 theaters in its opening weekend, with some pundits having it opening in the mid-$20 million range. [11] It made $4.6 million on its first day, including $615,000 from Thursday night previews at 2,150 theaters. [12] It went on to debut to $17.6 million, finishing third, behind Avengers: Infinity War ($62.1 million in its third week) and Life of the Party ($17.9 million); 68% of its audience was female while 73% was over the age of 25. [13] It fell 61% in its second weekend to $6.8 million, finishing fifth at the box office, [14] and another 41% to $4.1 million in its third, finishing sixth. [15]

Critical response

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 27% based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Breaking In is proof that Gabrielle Union deserves more leading roles — particularly in films that offer more than this rote, disposable action thriller." [16] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on reviews from 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [17] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. [13]

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