Breaking And Entering Page #2

Synopsis: A mother and her daughter, a mother and her son, and a man living with one and attracted to the other. Miro, a teen from Sarajevo, lives near King's Cross with his mother; he's nimble, able to run across roofs, so his uncle hires him to break into office skylights, so the uncle can boost computers. Twice they steal from Will's architectural firm, so Will stakes it out at night. He follows Miro home and returns the next day and meets Miro's mother, Amira. At home, Will's relationship with Liv is strained - he feels outside Liv and her daughter Bea's circle. The stakeout and Amira's vulnerability are attractive alternatives to being at home. The police, too, watch Miro.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Anthony Minghella
Production: The Weinstein Company
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2006
120 min
$880,510
Website
266 Views


who collects batteries,

doesn't sleep, doesn't let us

sleep, won't eat anything,

spends all day wanting

to do somersaults, I mean,

yeah, sure, I'm concerned.

Of course I'm concerned.

Liv says that you're wrapped up in your work.

Wrapped up?

Wrapped up?

That's fair.

I love how working hard,

working really hard,

becomes wrapped up,

becomes something selfish.

I love that.

When you say that you love it,

do you mean that you don't love it?

Let's just back up.

We love Bea.

It's not a competition to see

who loves her the most.

If it were a competition,

I would happily let Liv win.

You win.

It says here your father died, your husband,

your sister.

This was where? Sarajevo?

Um, Miro and I left with the Red Cross.

My husband stayed behind and was, uh,

he stayed behind and was murdered.

You're Serbs?

My husband was Serb.

I'm Muslim.

Uh, it's complicated.

We're Bosnian,

we're all Bosnian...

It's complicated.

Do you have relatives in Britain?

My husband's family.

His brother, sisters and aunt.

Was a time when a smack around the ear

or my auntie would give me a thump.

Matter of fact, she punctured

my eardrum at one point,

but you knew where you were.

Simple, we're all simple.

What about you, Sonny Jim?

What have you been up to while

you've not been at school?

Back thieving,

stealing again? Hmm?

See, things are not things.

Things are always somebody's things.

Car is Jack's car,

'cause he worked for it.

Your Prada jacket is little

Kevin's Prada jacket,

before it was his... I can see

your little brain ticking over.

His Prada jacket belonged to Mr. Prada.

What about before that?

Before what?

Before it was Mr. Prada's?

Did it belong to the women who made it?

'Cause my mom does that...

makes clothes for other people,

slaves for other people.

Or like when prisoners make trains.

Next time you're going down.

We'll catch you,

and then you can discuss who owns the trains

with your cell mates.

Back in a minute.

Sorry I'm late again,

but everything is here.

- All the Macs. Everything

- It's okay.

- Excellent. Thank you.

- Thank you.

Excuse me.

You dropped this.

Oh, thanks, Erika.

Oh, please, come up, Erika.

It is Erika, isn't it?

- Yes, sir.

- Sandy.

We set the alarm, sir.

I did it myself.

You have my word.

I'm not accusing you.

The police have already called my mobile phone,

asking me questions.

Yeah, that is normal.

About this thing and then that thing.

I'm so sorry.

It was like Kafka.

'Where did you get your car?'

'Why are you ordering takeaway?'

You know, we try to do a good job.

You-you do, you do do a very good job.

Erika, listen.

We have to have a new code for the alarm.

Now, we're going to give you your own code,

You're going to choose it,

not us,

so there's absolutely no way

of you being wrongly accused of anything.

- Is that a deal?

- Okay, thanks.

Oh, listen.

I had your picture on my computer.

What would the burglar make of that?

My photograph?

Yeah. Well, from when I was,

um, trying my camera out,

if you remember.

So, the burglar, someone

who didn't know the context,

would think you were a friend or a girlfriend.

I mean, someone standing over

there who couldn't hear us,

what would he make of this?

Well, apart from my uniform.

Of course apart from the uniform, yeah.

But say, if we were too far away

to see the uniform.

You know? And I could give you

this book, and you know,

for all matey-boy over there

knows, that's a collected works

of Franz Kafka,

that's your birthday...

- Or the Bible.

- Or the Bible.

Uh...

The model hasn't changed.

Of course I know.

Because we'd have to plant...

Why isn't she moving?

You can't take a fish out of the water.

I have 50 e-mails.

- Why isn't she moving?

- She's dead.

You can't take a fish out of the water.

- Okay, put her down.

- Darling, listen to Mommy.

No, no, you can't take a fish out of the water.

No, no, don't put her back in.

You can't take a fish out of water!

She needs water.

Sandy, no, I can't get to the office.

If you can get to the office for me.

Well, I can't because I'm needed here.

You're right, you can't take a fish out.

You can't, but she's dead.

See? She's dead.

You can go? Okay,

that's great. Thank you.

- It's okay. We'll bury her.

- I'll speak later.

Okay, this is what we're going to do.

We're going to put her in a little box.

Oh, don't cry, darling.

Don't cry.

Come on, we're going to put her in a box...

New code.

Two, one...

seven, eight.

It's my date of birth.

Now what are you doing?

Let's go! Leave it.

Come on, let's go!

Come on!

Get the door!

Oh!

Jesus Christ!

F***ing hell.

Oh...

This is brilliant.

You're really going to do all this, I mean,

put a canal right through the middle?

Yeah.

It's brilliant.

I'm Bruno Fella, CID.

Are you Sandy or Will?

- I'm Will.

- Hello, Will.

- Hi.

- You know what?

I was born right there,

just about there.

I'd have drowned.

Mm.

I love it.

I think it's really nice.

This is Sandy, um,

Hoffman, my partner.

- Sandy.

- Hello.

Detective Bruno Fella, CID.

Hi, Bruno.

I'm just saying this is a fabulous building.

I think it's brilliant.

Thank you.

Was it you had the scrape with the villains?

No, I wouldn't say it was a scrape.

Well, they scraped my car.

No, I was running late for the first break-in.

I wasn't quite prepared for the second.

Well, I get it, completely.

You know,

completely get it, you know?

You're, um, disgruntled.

I would be, you know,

putting all that effort

into making such a fabulous building, you know,

in an off-style community.

You know, you don't need the grief, do you?

Well, it's no fun, Bruno.

You know, financially it's a disaster.

The insurance is gonna be through the roof.

You know your problem, Sandy?

What's my problem?

King's Cross.

Is what?

What is it?

I mean... that's you there.

You got a British Library over there

with Eurostar,

and bang in the middle

you got crack village with a load of Somalians

walking about with machetes.

It's an area in flux.

Oh, they left a computer disk, the burglars.

Did you know that?

With my photographs.

Oh. What do you mean? Where?

Sorry, they returned it.

More than that, they downloaded

my personal photographs

off my laptop, that they stole the first time,

and they brought it back.

Well, can we see it?

Yeah.

Lovely.

So they got compassion.

I won't go that far.

Well, I'm not saying you gotta

show them compassion.

You know, you're just like

my girlfriend, my ex-girlfriend.

They're the criminals,

they're the bad guys.

Can I have a go?

There...

Don't you just love a Mac?

Sweet, huh?

And what do you say to your girlfriend?

I'm the Old Bill,

Will, you know?

I've been on the beat,

undercover, in a suit,

you know, it's the law.

It's, uh, Einstein's law of relativity.

What does that mean,

exactly, sir? Relativity?

Well, relatively speaking, um,

it means, if me and Sandy here

break the law, you know, we're

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Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. more…

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