Product Description
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Consider Mr. Brooks: a successful businessman; a generous
philanthropist; a loving her and devoted husband. Seemingly,
he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret - he is an insatiable
serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected
him - until now. Earl Brooks is a man who has managed to keep his
two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his
cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall. But now, as Mr. Brooks
succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer
witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in
the dark agenda of an rtunistic bystander, as well as hunted
by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr.
Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double
life from his wife and daughter - or will someone expose his
crimes and his identity once and for all?
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Consider Mr. Brooks: A successful businessman, a generous
philanthropist, a loving her and devoted husband. Seemingly,
he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret... he is also the
notorious Thumbprint Killer and no one has ever suspected it...
until now.
The Cast of Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner (
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William Hurt (
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Demi Moore (
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Dane Cook (
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Marg Helgenberger (
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Danielle Panabaker (
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Beyond Mr. Brooks
Mr. Brooks on Blu-Ray (
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Mr. Brooks: Music From The Motion Picture (
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Stills from Mr. Brooks
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Review
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Kevin Costner as a warped serial killer, a pillar of the
community whose dark side is embodied by an on-screen William
Hurt? You have to admit, it sounds intriguing, right? Mr. Brooks
is the vehicle for this unsavory story, and it turns out to be a
lot less kicky than it sounds. Mr. Brooks is a Portland, Oregon
tycoon and philanthropist whose "addiction" to murder is suddenly
re-surfacing--with plenty of help from his sneering alter ego,
who generally sits in the back of the car, goading Mr. Brooks on.
(The other characters can't see William Hurt in all this, of
course.) The unbelievably convoluted plot has Mr. Brooks
confronted by a blackmailer (comedian Dane Cook) who has a
surprising twist on things, and trailed by a cop (Demi Moore) who
comes equipped with her own set of professional and marital woes.
As if that weren't enough, when Brooks's daughter (Danielle
Panabaker) comes home, it becomes clear that some traits run in
the family.
The scenes with Costner and Hurt are the best stuff in the film,
even if director Bruce Evans can't figure out how to play fair
visualizing their presence to others. But the script, which among
other whoppers make Demi Moore's character a millionaire, is just
too unbelievable to stomach. If William Hurt's character provided
a running commentary for this movie, there wouldn't be anything
left after he got through mocking it. --Robert Horton -- .com
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