The Brothers Bloom

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The Brothers Bloom

PG-13

2009

1h 49m

Comedy

Drama

Adventure

Romance

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Twenty-five years of swindling people are too much for Bloom and he wants out of the business. His brother, Stephen, convinces him to work on one final hustle, targeting an eccentric East Coast heiress named Penelope. The con game fails to play out as planned when Bloom falls in love with the irresistible woman.

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Despite strong performances The Brothers Bloom ultimately does not fulfill its lofty ambitions.

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Anna Smith

metro.co.uk

08/23/2018

Pretty, well acted and amusing, if ultimately superficial.

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Andrew O'Hagan

London Evening Standard

06/09/2010

4/5

We feel regularly discombobulated on the sea of this movie's ideas - which is a good thing for people feeling marooned by the general stupidity of this summer's film releases.

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Robbie Collin

News of the World

06/09/2010

3/5

If Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam ever had a child, science would be amazed and appalled. But also, it would probably end up making a film like this.

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Sean Axmaker

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04/08/2023

It’s a charming fantasy of a con movie that is less interested in the well-played con than the colorfully executed idea of a con, among other things.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

01/31/2021

3/5

The acting is great and it looks beautiful but it feels more like an under developed Wes Anderson film than a fully realized Rian Johnson movie.

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Times

12/07/2018

3.5/4

Writer-director Rian Johnson, following up his witty 2005 debut, the high school noir Brick, has a real gift for putting his own modern stamp on time-tested genres.

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D P

Nov 3

I checked this out because it's a Rian Johnson film, and I'm a huge fan of Knives Out. Eh...

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NA N

@NANA111 Aug 4

Rian Johnson is a plague upon cinema

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Dana B

Jun 25

It pulls the perfect con, which Ruffalo's character defines as a con where everyone gets what they want. The audience gets exactly what they want: A wild ride with an ending they won't see coming.

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Troy R

@Grim16 Jun 10

Interesting, funny, characters were made well. Overall got a little too meta by needing to do like 10 double-crosses to make it feel like a con movie. Not a bad movie, but just got a little tired by the end.

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Samim A

01/18/2025

Great film, with great actors and funny moments

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Loren H

03/23/2024

If you can completely suspend belief, you may like the film for its offbeat humor and vibe. However the script is a total mess of careless holes and convenient impossibilities. It quickly left me annoyed at being more clumsily manipulated as an audience member than the "mark" in the film. The annoyance merely built over the long course of the films descent into ever more contrived nonsensical scenarios.

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Synopsis

Twenty-five years of swindling people are too much for Bloom and he wants out of the business. His brother, Stephen, convinces him to work on one final hustle, targeting an eccentric East Coast heiress named Penelope. The con game fails to play out as planned when Bloom falls in love with the irresistible woman.

Director: Rian Johnson
Producer: Ram Bergman, James D. Stern
Screenwriter: Rian Johnson
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Production Co: Endgame Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Ram Bergman
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sensuality|Brief Strong Language|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Adventure, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.5M
Runtime: 1h 49m

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