The Brothers Bloom is an American film which is set to have a limited released on May 15, 2009. And there is a wide release on May 29, 2009. This is a heist film starred by Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), Adrien Brody (Kingkong), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Rachel Weisz (The Mummy Returns). This is directed by Rian Johnson under Summit Entertainment.

The film’s plot is about the Brothers Bloom who are one of the greatest con artists. The brothers were Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody). They started tricking people back when they were children, and from then they live their lives stealing from different people to millionaires. They work together with a silent sidekick named Bang-bang (Rinko Kikuchi) who is an explosive expert. Stephen is the one who does the planning while Bloom is the one who always go near the victims and the one to feel the guilt in the end. Bloom tried to quit because he wanted to have a good life. He went drunk then Stephen finds him and offered him one last job and then he can quit after doing it.

They are up to a one last job and that is to steal from a wealthy heiress named Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz). She is a lonely eccentric girl who believes she has less time. She wanted to do a different or strange kind of adventure. The con men took advantage of her loneliness. But the plan was complicated from the moment Bloom fell in love with Penelope. The moment she discovered that they are con men; she decided to be one of them as well.

The film is not any kind of film that the audience can just predict what happen, it is like having to guess who was being conned and who is not. From different reviews, most movie critics love the plot since it is not boring. The cinematic, costumes and the steamships will remind audience about the Wes Anderson films. It is a quirk-filled film of a con game and love story at the same time. It is a smart film as it is entertaining. The director Rian Johnson was awarded of Outstanding Achievement in Directing at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

The film originally has a release date last January 2009 but was pushed to May 2009. As Summit Entertainment informed, this is because of the many similar films that were being released in January. Last, April 23, 2009, the online streaming video site Hulu posted the first seven minutes of the film.
  

Movie Statistics:
Directed by Rian Johnson
Produced by Wendy Japhet, Ram Bergman, James D. Stern
Written by Rian Johnson
Narrated by Ricky Jay
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Andy Nyman, Maximillian Schell, Nora Zehetner
Music by Nathan Johnson
Cinematography: Steve Yedlin
Distributed by Summit Entertainment
Released on May 15, 2009 (limited), May 29, 2009 (wide)
Country: United States
Language: English
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