BROTHERS Trailer (2024) Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close

BROTHERS Trailer (2024) Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close

BROTHERS Trailer (2024) Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Brendan Fraser, Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, Action, Comedy Movie
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Brothers

Release poster
Directed by Max Barbakow
Screenplay by Macon Blair
Story by Etan Cohen
Produced by
Andrew Lazar
Josh Brolin
Peter Dinklage
David Ginsberg
Starring
Josh Brolin
Peter Dinklage
Glenn Close
Marisa Tomei
Brendan Fraser
Cinematography Quyen Tran
Edited by Martin Pensa
Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams
Production
companies
Legendary Pictures
Mad Chance Productions
Brolin Productions
Estuary Films
Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios
Release date
October 10, 2024
Running time 88 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Brothers is a 2024 American action comedy film directed by Max Barbakow with a screenplay by Macon Blair from a story by Etan Cohen. The film stars Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, and Brendan Fraser.

Produced by Legendary Pictures, the film was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios in select theaters on October 10, 2024, before debuting on Amazon Prime Video a week later on October 17.

Cast
Josh Brolin as Moke Munger
Peter Dinklage as Jady Munger
Marisa Tomei
Taylour Paige as Abby Munger-Jacobson
Glenn Close as Cath Munger
Brendan Fraser as Farful
M. Emmet Walsh as Judge Farful
Jennifer Landon as Young Cath
Production
On February 28, 2019, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment had purchased the project in a competitive bidding war, with Etan Cohen set to write the screenplay. Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage were attached to star in the film as well as produce alongside Andrew Lazar. The film was said to be tonally in the vein of Twins (1988), which centered on two unlikely twins played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.[1]

Macon Blair was later attached to direct the film and co-write the script with Cohen on April 30, 2020.[2]

On June 3, 2021, Glenn Close joined the main cast, with Max Barbakow directing.[3] Two months later, Brendan Fraser and Taylour Paige were added to the main cast.[4][5]

Principal photography took place in August 2021 in Atlanta.[4]

On March 7, 2022, the final writing was revealed; Blair received screenplay credit, and Cohen received story credit, while Barbakow and Mike Rosolio have additional literary material credits off-screen.[6]

Release
In October 2023, Amazon MGM Studios acquired distribution rights to the film.[7] The film was released in select theaters in the United States on October 10, 2024, before debuting on Amazon Prime Video on October 17, 2024.[8][9]

References
Kit, Borys (February 28, 2019). "Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage Team for 'Brothers' Comedy (Exclusive)". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 4, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
Kroll, Justin (April 30, 2020). "Macon Blair to Direct Legendary's 'Brothers' Starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
Rubin, Rebecca (June 3, 2021). "Glenn Close to Star in 'Brothers' With Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage". Variety. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
Grobar, Matt (August 3, 2021). "Brendan Fraser Boards Martin Scorsese's 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' & Legendary Comedy 'Brothers'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 23, 2021). "'Ma Rainey's Taylour Paige Boards Legendary's 'Brothers'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 23, 2021. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
"Brothers". Writers Guild of America West. March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
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Kit, Borys (May 22, 2024). "Amazon MGM Picks Up Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage Action Comedy 'Brothers' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
Grobar, Matt (May 22, 2024). "Amazon MGM Studios Acquires Action Comedy 'Brothers' Starring Josh Brolin & Peter Dinklage". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
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Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Brendan Fraser, and Marisa Tomei.

The plot follows a reformed criminal (Brolin), whose path to redemption is sidetracked when he reconnects with his chaotic twin brother (Dinklage) during a wild road trip. As they try to pull off one final score, they must contend with gunfire, the law (Fraser), and their overbearing mother (Close), all while attempting to repair their fractured relationship. The cast includes Taylour Paige, Jennifer Landon, and the late M. Emmet Walsh.

Brothers is helmed by Max Barbakow, best known for his work on Palm Springs, and features a script by Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore) based on a story by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder). Producing is Andrew Lazar under Mad Chance, alongside Brolin for JB Productions, and Dinklage with David Ginsberg for Estuary Films. The film’s executive producers include Trish Stanard and Barbakow.

The film, which Amazon MGM Studios acquired the worldwide rights to back in May, will hit select US theatres on October 11 before its global release on Prime Video, where it will be available in over 240 countries and territories from October 17.

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The Paper

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ron Howard
Written by
David Koepp
Stephen Koepp
Produced by
Brian Grazer
Frederick Zollo
Starring
Michael Keaton
Glenn Close
Marisa Tomei
Randy Quaid
Robert Duvall
Cinematography John Seale
Edited by
Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill
Music by Randy Newman
Production
company
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
March 18, 1994
Running time 112 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $48.4 million[1]
The Paper is a 1994 American comedy drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Make Up Your Mind", which was written and performed by Randy Newman.

The film depicts a hectic 24 hours in a newspaper editor's professional and personal life. The main story of the day is two white businessmen found murdered in a parked car in New York City. The reporters discover a police cover-up of evidence that the Black teenage suspects in custody are innocent, and rush to scoop the story in the midst of professional, private and financial chaos.

Plot
Henry Hackett is the metro editor of the tabloid newspaper The New York Sun[a] who loves his job, but has grown weary of the long hours and low pay. He also worries that he could become like his editor-in-chief, Bernie White, who put his work first at the expense of his family. Bernie reveals to Henry that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and tries to track down his estranged daughter in an attempt to reconcile before his time is up.

Facing dire financial straits, the paper's owner has Henry’s nemesis, managing editor Alicia Clark, impose unpopular cutbacks. He is also clashing with his pregnant wife Martha, a fellow Sun journalist (currently on leave), over her fears that he won’t be around to help raise their child. She urges him to become an editor at the prestigious New York Sentinel,[b] which would mean more money, respect, and fewer hours.

That morning, a hot story develops involving the murder of two white businessmen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A pair of African-American teenagers are arrested for the crime, but Henry and columnist Michael McDougal become skeptical after hearing cops criticizing the arrest on the newsroom police scanner.

Henry becomes obsessed with the case, pushing his staff to dig into the story. It leads him to blow his chances at the Sentinel when he cannot resist stealing information about the case while in the Sentinel newsroom interviewing for the job. Meanwhile, a source tells Martha that the businessmen were bankers who stole money from a reputed New York mobster, further convincing Henry that the Brooklyn youths were wrongly arrested.

Henry pushes to extend the deadline to get more time to nail the story, but Alicia refuses, citing the cost of overtime pay for the press workers and delivery truck drivers. With time running out, Henry and McDougal get a police detective to confirm that the suspects are innocent, and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Returning to the Sun, Henry confronts Alicia, who refuses to let him stop the presses and run the right story. They have an awkward fistfight before Alicia prevails, then fires Henry.

After having a drink with McDougal at a journalist watering hole, Alicia has a change of heart. But before she can reach the press room on a pay phone, she is hit in the leg by a stray bullet fired by a drunk city official who had gone to the bar to confront McDougal over columns attacking him.

Meanwhile, Henry arrives home just as Martha is being rushed to the hospital for an emergency cesarean section. As doctors prep Martha for surgery, in another part of the hospital, Alicia insists on calling the Sun to change the front page before allowing doctors to treat her.

The next morning, Alicia lies in her hospital bed reading a copy of the Sun with the headline “They Didn’t Do It!” Henry stops by the nursery to see his newborn son, then goes to Martha’s room. As he lies down with her, a news anchor on the bedside radio reports that the youths have been released thanks to the Sun's exclusive scoop.

Cast
Michael Keaton as Henry Hackett
Glenn Close as Alicia Clark
Marisa Tomei as Martha Hackett
Randy Quaid as Michael McDougal
Robert Duvall as Bernie White
Jason Alexander as Marion Sandusky
Spalding Gray as Paul Bladden
Catherine O'Hara as Susan
Lynne Thigpen as Janet
Jack Kehoe as Phil
Roma Maffia as Carmen
Clint Howard as Ray Blaisch
Geoffrey Owens as Lou
Amelia Campbell as Robin
Jill Hennessy as Deanne White
William Prince as Henry's father
Augusta Dabney as Henry's mother
Bruce Altman as Carl
Jack McGee as Wilder
Bobo Lewis as Anna
Edward Hibbert as Jerry
Jim Meskimen as Tom
Siobhan Fallon as Lisa
Rance Howard as Alicia's Doctor
Mike Sheehan as Richie
Michael Moran as Chuck
Cedric Young as Martha's Paramedic
Michael Countryman as Emmett
James Ritz as A.C. Repairmen
Sally-Jane Heit as Grace
Herbert Rubens as Tony
Jason Robards as Graham Keightley
Production
Screenwriter Stephen Koepp, a senior editor at Time magazine, collaborated on the screenplay with his brother David and together they initially came up with "A Day in the Life of a Paper" as their premise. David said, "We wanted a regular day, though this is far from regular."[2] They also wanted to "look at the financial pressures of a paper to get on the street and still tell the truth."[2] After they created the character of a pregnant reporter (played by Marisa Tomei) who is married to the metro editor, both of the Koepps' wives became pregnant. Around that time, Universal Pictures greenlighted the project.

For his next project after Far and Away (1992), director Ron Howard wanted to do something on the newspaper industry. Steven Spielberg recommended that he get in touch with David Koepp. Howard intended to pitch an idea to the writer, who instead wanted to talk about how much he loved the script for his 1989 film Parenthood. The filmmaker remembers, "I found that pretty flattering, of course, so I asked about the subject of his work-in-progress. The answer was music to my ears: 24 hours at a tabloid newspaper."[3] Howard read their script and remembers, "I liked the fact that it dealt with the behind-the-scenes of headlines. But I also connected with the characters trying to cope during this 24-hour period, desperately trying to find this balance in their personal lives, past and present."[4]

To prepare for the film, Howard made several visits to the New York Post and Daily News (which inspired the fictional newspaper in the film). He remembers, "You'd hear stuff from columnists and reporters about some jerk they'd worked with ... I heard about the scorned female reporter who wound up throwing hot coffee in some guy's crotch when she found out he was fooling around with someone else."[5] These types of stories inspired Howard to change the gender of the managing editor, a role that Glenn Close would later play. Howard felt the Koepps' script featured a newsroom that was too male-dominated.[6] The writers agreed and changed the character's name from Alan to Alicia but kept the dialogue the same. According to David Koepp, "Anything else would be trying to figure out, 'How would a woman in power behave?' And it shouldn't be about that. It should be about how a person in power behaves, and since that behavior is judged one way when it's a man, why should it be judged differently if it's a woman?"[6]

Howard met with some of the top newspapermen in New York, including former Post editor Pete Hamill and columnists Jimmy Breslin and Mike McAlary (who inspired the character played by Randy Quaid in the movie). They told the filmmaker how some reporters bypass traffic jams by putting emergency police lights on their cars (a trick used in the movie). Hamill and McAlary also can be seen in cameos.[5]

Howard wanted to explore the nature of tabloid journalism. "I kept asking, 'Are you embarrassed to be working at the New York Post? Would you rather be working at The Washington Post or The New York Times?' They kept saying they loved the environment, the style of journalism."[5] The model for Keaton's character was metro editor Richie Esposito of the Daily News. Howard said, "He was well-dressed but rumpled, mid-to-late 30s, overworked, very articulate and fast-talking. And very, very smart. When I saw him, I thought, that's Henry Hackett. As written."[3]

The director also was intrigued by the unsavory aspect of these papers. "They were interested in celebrities who were under investigation or had humiliated themselves in some way. I could see they would gleefully glom onto a story that would be very humiliating for someone. They didn't care about that. If they believed their source, they would go with it happily."[5]

In addition to being influenced by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's famous stage play The Front Page, Howard studied newspaper movies from the 1930s and 1940s. Howard said, "Every studio made them, and then they kind of vanished. One of the reasons I thought it would make a good movie today is that it feels fresh and different."[7]

One of Howard's goals was to cram in as much information about a 24-hour day in the newspaper business as possible. He said, "I'm gonna get as many little details right as possible: a guy having to rewrite a story and it bugs the hell out of him, another guy talking to a reporter on the phone and saying, 'Well, it's not Watergate for God's sake.' Little, tiny – you can't even call them subplots – that most people on the first screening won't even notice, probably. It's just sort of newsroom background.'"[8]

Reception
Box office
The Paper was given a limited release in five theaters on March 18, 1994, where it grossed $175,507 on its opening weekend. It expanded its release the following weekend to 1,092 theaters where it made $7 million over that weekend. The film went on to gross $38.8 million in the United States and Canada and $9.6 million in the rest of the world for a total of $48.4 million worldwide.[1]

Critical response
The Paper received positive reviews from critics and holds an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews; the average rating is 7.2/10. The consensus states: "Fast and frenetic, The Paper captures the energy of the newsroom thanks to its cast and director on first-rate form."[9] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 70 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[10] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on a scale of A+ to F.[11]

In his review for The Boston Globe, Jay Carr wrote, "It takes a certain panache to incorporate the ever-present threat of your own extinction into the giddy tradition of the newspaper comedy, but The Paper pulls it off. There's no point pretending that I'm objective about this one. I know it's not Citizen Kane, but it pushes my buttons".[12] Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "In the end, The Paper offers splashy entertainment that's a lot like a daily newspaper itself – hot news cools fast."[13] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman praised Michael Keaton's performance: "Keaton is at his most urgent and winning here. His fast-break, neurotic style – owlish stare, motor mouth – is perfect for the role of a compulsive news junkie who lives for the rush of his job." But Gleiberman felt that the film was "hampered by its warmed-over plot, which seems designed to teach Henry and the audience lessons".[14]

In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin was critical of the film. "Each principal has a problem that is conveniently addressed during this one-day interlude, thanks to a screenplay (by David Koepp and Stephen Koepp) that feels like the work of a committee. The film's general drift is to start these people off at fever pitch and then let them gradually unveil life's inner meaning as the tale trudges toward resolution."[15] Rita Kempley, in her review for The Washington Post, wrote, "Ron Howard still thinks women belong in the nursery instead of the newsroom. Screenwriters David Koepp of Jurassic Park and his brother Stephen (of Time magazine) are witty and on target in terms of character, but their message in terms of male and female relations is a prehistoric one."[16]

In an interview, New York journalist and author Robert Caro praised The Paper, calling it "a great newspaper movie."[17]

Year-end lists
10th – Christopher Sheid, The Munster Times[18]
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Mike Mayo, The Roanoke Times[19]
Honorable mention – Bob Carlton, The Birmingham News[20]
Notes
This newspaper is fictional. The real New York Sun merged with another paper in 1950, but the film version shares the same masthead. Since the film's release, a new incarnation of the Sun appeared, also using the masthead.
Based on The New York Times.
References
"The Paper". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
Schaefer, Stephen (March 27, 1994). "New edition competes with small screen, too". Boston Herald.
Arnold, Gary (March 27, 1994). "Tabloid press gets the Ron Howard touch in The Paper". Washington Times.
Uricchio, Marylynn (March 25, 1994). "Opie's Byline: Paper Director Ron Howard was drawn to Keaton's Style, Newsroom's Buzz". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 29. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
Kurtz, Howard (March 27, 1994). "Hollywood's Read on Newspapers; For Decades, a Romance With the Newsroom". The Washington Post.
Schwager, Jeff (August 13, 1994). "Out of the Shadows". Moviemaker. Archived from the original on November 14, 2006. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
Dowd, Maureen (March 13, 1994). "The Paper Replates The Front Page for the 90's". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
Carr, Jay (October 10, 1993). "Director Ron Howard goes to press with The Paper". The Boston Globe.
"The Paper (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
"The Paper". Metacritic. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
"Search for 'The Paper'". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
Carr, Jay (March 25, 1994). "The Paper gets the story right". The Boston Globe.
Stack, Peter (March 25, 1994). "Extra! Extra! Paper Really Delivers!". San Francisco Chronicle.
Gleiberman, Owen (March 18, 1994). "The Paper". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
Maslin, Janet (March 18, 1994). "A Day With the People Who Make the News". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
Kempley, Rita (March 25, 1994). "Stop the Presses! Roll The Cameras! It's The Paper". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
Robbins, Christopher (17 Feb 2016). "Robert Caro Wonders What New York Is Going To Become". The Gothamist. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2016. ... you know there's another movie, called The Paper. ... Robert Duvall [plays] this editor very much like the editor who I said didn't want to hire anyone from the Ivy League ... It's a great newspaper movie.
Sheid, Christopher (December 30, 1994). "A year in review: Movies". The Munster Times. Munster, Indiana.
Mayo, Mike (December 30, 1994). "The Hits and Misses at the Movies in '94". The Roanoke Times (Metro ed.). p. 1.
Carlton, Bob (December 29, 1994). "It Was a Good Year at Movies". The Birmingham News. p. 12-01.
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In “Brothers,” Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage play adult twins, Moke and Jady Munger, who’ve been criminal accomplices ever since their jewelry-heisting mom abandoned them as kids.

You hear the pitch for director Max Barbakow’s follow-up to his 2020 Sundance phenom “Palm Springs,” and it’s fair to assume that the two actors’ mismatched appearances will be the source of the laughs. Screenwriters Macon Blair (“The Toxic Avenger”) and Etan Cohen ( “Tropic Thunder”) have credits that suggest as much, while Hollywood has a history of turning out “high-concept” comedies like “Twins,” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito played long-separated (and far-from-identical) siblings.

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It comes as a relief to find that the gap in stature between Moke and Jady is not at all the difference that “Brothers” intends to focus on. Rather, it’s their mild-versus-wild personalities and polar-opposite life goals that keep these siblings squabbling well into their 50s. After decades of assisting Jady in petty crimes, Moke has decided to clean up his life, holding down a degrading job and preparing to welcome a little “Blueberry” into the world with his wife Abby (Taylour Paige). Meanwhile, the instant Jady gets out of prison, the troublemaker with a handlebar moustache shows up with a plan to lead Moke astray.

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Now that he’s free, Jady has no intention of going clean. In fact, his early release is contingent on a bad deal with a shady prison guard (Brendan Fraser), who’s counting on Jady to recover a stash of Rockefeller-caliber emeralds his mom stole many years earlier. The timeline’s a little wonky in “Brothers,” suggesting the screenwriters didn’t know who would play the title pair and once Brolin and Dinklage were attached, couldn’t be bothered to adjust the script (except one gag, where a security guard mistakes a hoodie-wearing Jady for a “kid” from behind).

The brothers have been ultra-protective of one another ever since they were ditched by their mom all those years ago — enough so that “big” brother will risk his marriage to help Jady with one last score. Without fully realizing their objective, Moke lies to Abby about the reason for their two-day road trip and sets off for what we can only hope will be more amusing than the dull Thanksgiving meal that awaits him with the in-laws. Apart from being sexually assaulted by an orangutan, however, it all feels pretty standard.

With “Palm Springs,” Barbakow shared story credit on a really smart script, one that found fresh wisdom (and refreshing irreverence) in the overplayed “Groundhog Day” formula. “Brothers” also resembles countless films that have come before — in this case, dimwit rural crime capers, from “Raizing Arizona” to “Logan Lucky,” but also/especially the mid-2000s sitcom “My Name Is Earl” — but lacks the original spin or improv-ready leads that might have set it apart.

If Jady’s objective is to retrieve the emeralds his mother stole, it seems like he should be trying to enlist her help, not his brother’s. Sure enough, Cath resurfaces, first seen in the prologue by Jennifer Landon and later played by a deliciously against-type Glenn Close, whose red-haired Southern chutzpah suggests Reba McEntire with a larcenous streak. In any case, it’s a complete reversal of her “Reversal of Fortune” character and just one of the movie’s surprising supporting characters.

Wide-eyed officer Farful is the kind of role you could imagine Fraser taking if he hadn’t just won an Oscar. There’s also a corrupt local judge (and Farful’s father) played by M. Emmet Walsh, in what could be a shotgun-toting reprise of his character from “The Jerk,” and a curious cameo from Marisa Tomei, as a gold-toothed, aura-reading weirdo. Apparently, her character struck up some kind of pseudo-spiritual correspondence with Jady in prison, which the pair now plan to consummate … while her pet orangutan has his way with Moke in the other room.

While the entire ensemble comes across fully committed to roles that are well beneath them, it’s not at all clear what the point was in presenting the Moke and Jady characters as twins. Two weeks ago, a different Prime original — that one a tepid thriller called “Killer Heat” — featured identical twins who use their matching looks to switch places. That may be the oldest trick in the book, but it makes more sense than “Brothers,” which does nothing especially unique with the premise.

“Brothers” opens in limited release on Oct. 10, then releases globally on Prime Video on Oct. 17.

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Reviewed at The Culver Theater, Los Angeles, Oct. 11, 2024. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 88 MIN.
Production: An Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video release of a Legendary Entertainment, Brolin Prods., Estuary Films, Mad Chance production. Producers: Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, David Ginsberg, Joshua Grode. Executive prodcuers: Macon Blair, Trish Stanard. Co-prodcuer: Jessica Derhammer.
Crew: Director: Max Barbakow. Screenplay: Macon Blair, from a story by Etan Cohen. Camera: Quyen Tran. Editors: Christian Hoffman, Martin Pensa. Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams.
With: Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, Jennifer Landon, Brendan Fraser, Glenn Close.
For a streaming movie about two bickering burglars, the upcoming Prime Video movie Brothers boasts some A-list names.

Game of Thrones Emmy winner Peter Dinklage joins Oscar nominees Josh Brolin and Glenn Close, and Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Marisa Tomei, in the caper comedy that centers on a cache of emeralds with a large side of family dysfunction.

Oh, and there’s also an amorous orangutan named Samuel.

The trailer opens with the diminutive Dinklage getting tossed into a bathtub and held underwater by Fraser, who asks where the stones are.

Rewinding, Dinklage explains, “Some families have a long line of dentists and lawyers. We had a long line of felons.”

He says that since childhood, he and his “big ugly twin brother,” played by Brolin, were always stealing stuff. “I had the plans, he had the hands,” the actor narrates.

While Brolin’s character has gone straight, Dinklage proposes one last score — for the stones.

Complicating matters is the return of their mother, played by Close. “You were gone 30 years!” Brolin says, with Close responding, “I can apologize only so much.”

“You haven’t apologized at all,” Brolin replies.

Evidently, however, she’s needed so the trio can get their hands on the $4 million haul.

There’s a ton of physical comedy and R-rated wordplay from director Max Barbakow — and Brolin’s character is apparently molested by the ape, requiring the embarrassed thief to slather hand sanitizer all over himself afterward.

The movie hits Prime Video Oct. 17.
Peter Dinklage is often considered one of the best actors working today. However, in recent years, the performer regularly shows up in some of the most surprising places. That could be as a huge dwarf in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or perhaps as the bad guy in a “Transformers” film. Hell, perhaps his most surprising role is in “The Toxic Avenger” (which really needs to get a distributor, come on). Now, he’s starring in a comedy, “Brothers,” opposite Josh Brolin.

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As seen in the trailer, “Brothers” tells the story of a thief who needs to get his brother on board for one more score. That’s not the most interesting plot, as we’ve seen that play out a million times before. However, when you take into consideration everyone involved, “Brothers” looks like it could be one of the best comedies of the year.

The film stars Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, and Brendan Fraser. “Brothers” is directed by Max Barbakow, who is best known for working on the acclaimed comedy, “Palm Springs.”

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“Brothers” is set to arrive on Prime Video on October 17. You can watch the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis:

Brothers tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Peter Dinklage) on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.
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