25th Hour 2002

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 135 min

genre: drama

director: Spike Lee

Score: 8 / 10

25th Hour is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Adapted by David Benioff from his 2001 debut novel The 25th Hour, it tells the story of a man's last 24 hours of freedom as he prepares to go to prison for seven years for dealing drugs.

Plot

A car pulls up at night on a New York City street. Monty Brogan and his friend Kostya get out to look at an injured dog lying in the road. Monty intends to perform a mercy kill but changes his mind after looking the dog in the eye.

Cast

More details

author	David Benioff
contentLocation	New York City
director	Spike Lee
editor	Barry Alexander Brown
events	custodial sentence drug dealer drug-related crime Rockefeller Drug Laws
genre	drama
keywords	arrest betray broken nose childhood friends coup de grâce dea dea agent drive drug dealing drug enforcement administration george washington george washington bridge hang henry hudson parkway hide high school teacher injured kill last day mercy kill osama bin laden prison rape prison sentence recovering alcoholic rescue school teacher seven years survive tribute in light turn upstate new york wall street wash world trade center
musicBy	Terence Blanchard
producer	Jon Kilik Julia Chasman Spike Lee Tobey Maguire
productionCompany	25th Hour Productions 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Gamut Films Industry Entertainment Touchstone Pictures
publisher	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
recordedAt	Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island The Bronx