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What Doesn't Kill You |  | Director: Brian Goodman
Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet, Will Lyman, Brian Goodman
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: Movie
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 27533
Genre: Drama - Crime
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 101 Minutes
ASIN: B002D40OCU
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 2008
Release Date: October 5, 2009
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| Synopsis:
WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU stars Mark Ruffalo (Brian) and Academy Award winner Ethan Hawke* (Paulie) as friends who grew up like brothers on the gritty streets of south Boston. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog-eat-dog neighborhood. Petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses and eventually, they fall under sway to organized crime boss Pat Kelly (played by Goodman). As Brian becomes increasingly lost in a haze of drugs and 'jobs,' even the love he has for his wife (Amanda Peet) and his children does not seem like it will be enough to redeem him. Meanwhile, Paulie plans "one last heist" but knows it will take both of them to pull it off. How can they escape the only life they know?t |
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 Scenes from the thuggish lives of uninvolving characters January 18, 2010
Douglas B. Moran (Palo Alto, CA USA)
The unfulfilled implication of the title--"... makes you stronger"-- is that this is a drama about the growth of the main character Brian (Ruffalo) through dealing with adversity. Brian and the other lead character Paulie (Hawke) are uninteresting losers, on the bottom rung of a gang with no indication of ever becoming anything more or different. Even their aspirations are trivial and uninteresting. Because I couldn't get involved in their stories, I couldn't get interested in, much less care about, what happened to them.
What's left is a disjointed collection of scenes primarily of their thuggery. I could imagine many of the scenes individually being a component of a good movie--and typically they have been part of much better movies--but here they add up to nothing.
A measure of how uninvolving this movie was is that I found myself easily distracted by the cinematography, ignoring the characters and story. I kept watching only because the images of Boston in winter were so evocative (I went to college there).
Amanda Peet is disconcertingly miscast in this movie. She shines through every scene she is in, grabbing your attention and making you care about her character and her character's circumstances. Normally this would be good, but here it emphasizes how bland and uninvolving the male characters are. The script provides no hint of why such a woman would have married Brian, much less stayed married to him.
 A different kind of drama November 27, 2009
Alana S. Matthews (sasebo,japan)
Seller shipped item as stated in description. Movie was a different kind of drama with great actors involved.
thugs in the city October 25, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
The whole theme of this movie seems to be we should see these thugs
as people? They are out beating up and robbing people from the time they are kids.
That they could have a family life on the other side of robbing and doing cocaine
makes them human?
I thought that the movie about modern mobsters in the big city
was just pretty nasty instead of the exciting it was supposed to be.
Aside from having a really bad plot, the acting , costumes and setting was well done.
This movie is just not one you would want to bring home
to watch after dinner.
Very Realistic Crime Drama September 19, 2009
A. Blatt (Detroit Lakes, MN USA)
This is a very realistic crime drama. Of course, it is based on a true story. The acting is sincere all around and definitely draws you in.
Formulaic June 26, 2009
Cary B. Barad (Baltimore, MD)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite a great cast, this story is another in the "South Boston" boys gone wrong genre. Morever, the first three-quarters of the film is jumbled, dimly lit and uninspired. It picks up thereafter with some suspense over the protagonist's moral quandry.
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