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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:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 38820
Genre: Drama - Crime
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 101 Minutes
ASIN: B002D40OCU
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 2008
Release Date: June 12, 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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 What Doesn't Kill You March 16, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An armored car is robbed by three men. A passing police officer and one of the robbers exchange fire. The robber is Paulie. In a flashback we follow him and his closest friend, Brian, as they grow up together in South Boston. They're tough guys, thugs, doing jobs for the local boss and chaffing to do more. Paulie's the leader. Brian drinks too much and free bases, ignoring his wife and two young boys. Life-changing events lead him to try to go straight, look for work, take what comes his way, and go to A.A. meetings. He struggles. Paulie shows him the plans for the armored car job. I was expecting this movie to be another predictable action movie, well it's not. The acting, writing, editing, and the music score, all made a very good contribution to this movie. Mark and Ethan's stunning performance elevates the movie from a standard gritty fare into an emotional, brutal, bitter realism. Definitely worth a look.
 Scenes from the thuggish lives of uninvolving characters January 18, 2010
Douglas B. Moran (Palo Alto, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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