7/28/2009

Breaking and Entering (2007)

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Lie. Cheat. Steal. Love.

Driven and successful architect Will Francis (Jude Law) must face his priorities and re-evaluate his life after his new London office is burglarized not once but twice by a team of Bosnian Muslim punks.

His wife Liv (Robin Wright Penn) is annoyed with his obsession with work while she seems to cope alone with their 13-year-old daughter Bea (Poppy Rogers) who is obsessed with gymnastics, hardly eats or sleeps, and is possibly autistic.

Meanwhile, Amira (Juliette Binoche), the widowed refugee mother of Mirsad (Eafi Gayron), one of the young thieves, is trying to get the boy to go back to school and stop his involved with the gang run Mirsad’s father’s brother.

Also appearing are Martin Freeman as Will’s business partner Sandy; Caroline Chikezie as Erika, a cleaning woman at their office; Ray Winstone as Bruno, an investigator on the case; and Juliet Stevenson as Bea’s psychotherapist Rosemary.

Written and directed by Anthony Minghella.

Run time: 1 hour, 59 minutes

Rated R.

My personal rating: B

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