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- 2006
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
- 2006
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
Summary A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, Breaking & Entering follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. (The Weinstein Company)
Directed By: Anthony Minghella
Written By: Anthony Minghella
- 2006
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
- 2006
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h
Breaking and Entering
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7.1
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Summary A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, Breaking & Entering follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. (The Weinstein Company)
Directed By: Anthony Minghella
Written By: Anthony Minghella
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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12 Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
56
44% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
56% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Negative
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One of the more intelligent, better-made new movies around right now, but, despite everything, it doesn't really connect with the nerves and heart. It's a romance without anguish, although the pain of love is really what it's all about.
Despite very good performances and solid construction, it's a slightly too symmetrical, way too tendentious side-by-side comparison of two families -- Haves, meet the Have-nots -- who come into unlikely contact in the fitfully gentrifying area of Kings Cross.
There's a great deal of potential here, but like Will, Minghella loses his bearings whenever he wanders too far from home.
Bold in scope and aptly mimicking the loose structures of kinship, friendship and work most city dwellers make do with these days, Breaking and Entering nonetheless plays out too quiet and too loose for its own good.
The story, like the protagonist, floats along in a noodly sort of way, intelligent, benign and ineffectual.
This is an ambitious midlife-crisis movie that valiantly weaves together big themes, among them the nagging guilt of the successful, wealthy artist.
What saves Breaking and Entering from foundering altogether in earnest self-regard is Mr. Minghella's evident affection for London, a city of inexhaustible architectural and human variety.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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67% Positive
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Production Company
Miramax,
Mirage Enterprises
Release Date Dec 15, 2006
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Tagline Love is no ordinary crime.
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
St. Louis Film Critics Association, US
• 1 Nomination
Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
