Mr. Brooks
- Release Date
- June 1, 2007
- Director
- Bruce A. Evans
- Cast
- Kevin Costner , Demi Moore , Dane Cook , William Hurt , Marg Helgenberger , Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Runtime
- 120
- Main Genre
- Crime
- Writers
- Bruce A. Evans , Raynold Gideon
- Tagline
- The man who has everything has everything to hide.
Summary
"All human beings...are commingled out of good and evil." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Consider Mr. Brooks: A successful businessman, generous philanthropist, loving husband and father, a true pillar of the community. Everyone says, he's perfect. Nonetheless, Mr. Brooks harbors a sinister secret -- he's an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him-until now. From Element Films and Relativity Media, in association with Eden Rock Media, comes a Tig Production distributed by MGM Distribution Co., the gripping suspense thriller MR. BROOKS, the story of an otherwise exceptional man divided in two by his unbearable need to kill. Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner stars as the charming, widely admired Mr. Brooks, whose shocking private life is about to unravel. Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Academy Award Winner® William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Danielle Panabaker also star. Earl Brooks (Costner) has it all: a loving wife (Marg Helgenberger) and devoted daughter (Danielle Panabaker), community standing, and his own thriving business. Mr. Brooks, however, lives another life, unknown to anyone else. He is also the notorious serial murderer branded as The Thumbprint Killer. Though recently inactive, his pathological compulsion is inflamed once again by his cunning, wicked alter ego (Academy Award® winner William Hurt), whom Mr. Brooks faults for his transgressions. But succumbing to one more malevolent urge to murder an unsuspecting couple, Mr. Brooks commits his first mistake--he is observed by a peeping Tom photographer (Dane Cook), who chooses to blackmail him with a bizarre demand. This last crime, though, also unleashes a tenacious detective (Demi Moore) whose own personal crisis drives her furiously to solve the identity of the Thumbprint Killer, putting her on Mr. Brooks' trail. Now, for the first time, Mr. Brooks faces the endgame -- unless he can continue to conceal his shocking secret life, and his true identity forever. The film stars Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Danielle Panabaker. The unsettling question of how a charismatic neighbor, business associate and family member can harbor within a cold-blooded killer has long confounded society - and inspired writers and filmmakers to take audiences into darkly fascinating and suspenseful worlds where they've never been before. With MR. BROOKS comes a fresh twist in the tale of how one man can lead a double life of both magnificent success and gruesome crime. Is Mr. Brooks a fantastic guy you'd be proud to call your friend -- or is he a twisted killer you definitely don't want to run into on the wrong dark night? At once seductive and deadly, upstanding and beyond the pale, Mr. Brooks is so compelling and terrifying precisely because he is both.
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