Breaking and Entering

2006

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 129 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 23745 23.7K

london, england robbery architect

Plot summary

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Director

Anthony Minghella Photo
Anthony Minghella

Top cast

Martin Freeman Photo
Martin Freeman as Sandy
Vera Farmiga Photo
Vera Farmiga as Oana
O.T. Fagbenle Photo
O.T. Fagbenle as Joe
Jude Law Photo
Jude Law as Will
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.04 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 2
2.13 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rubenm 5 / 10

Five tips to improve Breaking and Entering

Five tips to Anthony Minghella in order to make this a better film. 1. Change the courthouse scene. The way it is now makes you laugh. Which judge or law enforcer would believe such blatant lies? This scene makes a laughing stock of the British law system. (Besides, I don't get it. Why couldn't Will just say: OK, this bloke broke into my office, but I know his mother who mends my clothes and I want to give them both a break?)2. Change the scene where Amira FIRST gives Will the incriminating photos and THEN begs him to help her son. I mean, which woman in her right mind would do that? Why take the pictures in the first place if you don't use them? Also, her keeping the pictures would add a little suspense to the story.3. Remove the scene where Liv gets out of the car, kicks it and then embraces Will. This is Hollywood melodrama of the worst kind. 4. Remove Bea's accident on the construction site. It distracts from the conversation with the police persons and doesn't serve any purpose in the story. 5. Cut out all the psychobabble about circles, cages, and dark places within oneself.
Reviewed by arichmondfwc 9 / 10

The Law Of Darkness

The unexpected coming to alter what is already our daily routine. Doing something for one specific purpose without realizing that we are being lead by fate , I presume, to an existential cul-de-sac. This is the stuff that fairy tales are made off, also great drama, great comedy and all the natural ingredients of what is laughingly known as our daily existence. This is Minghella's most moving film to date - and that is saying something. His obsession with darkness hidden in his characters hearts is as universal a theme as unrequited love. Minghella loves his characters and the darker they are, the stronger the love. I didn't love Jude Law this much since Mr. Ripley and Juliette Binoche is heart breaking. Brilliant. I sat in silence after the film was over. Tears running down my face. It hadn't happened to me in many many years.
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