The Brothers Bloom
Cast & Crew
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Director
Rian Johnson -
Executive Producer
Douglas Hansen -
Executive Producer
Wendy Japhet -
Producer
James D. Stern -
Producer
Ram Bergman
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Bloom
Adrien Brody -
Penelope
Rachel Weisz -
Stephen
Mark Ruffalo -
Bang Bang
Rinko Kikuchi -
The Curator
Robbie Coltrane
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Production Designer
Jim Clay -
Director of Photography
Steve Yedlin -
Costume Designer
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor -
Picture Editor
Gabriel Wrye -
Composer
Nathan Johnson
Synopsis
Academy Award winner® Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener), Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), and Academy Award® nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) star in The Brothers Bloom, a globe-trotting comedy about the last great adventure of the world's two best con men. Welcome to the world of The Brothers Bloom, where deception is an art and nothing is as it seems. The brothers have perfected their craft through years of fraternal teamwork. Now they've decided to take on one last spectacular job--luring a beautiful and eccentric heiress into an elaborate plot that takes them around the world. For as long as they can remember, the Brothers Bloom have had only each other to depend on. From their childhood in a long series of gloomy foster homes to their highflying lives as international con artists, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody) have shared everything. Stephen brilliantly concocts intricate stories that the brothers live out, but he's still searching for the perfect con, the one where "everyone gets what they want." Meanwhile, Bloom yearns for "an unwritten life"--a real adventure, one not dreamed up by his older brother.
Latest Updates
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Weisz attracts attention in The Brothers Bloom
Published on: May 27, 2009
Canada.com got a chance to talk to Rachel Weisz about her latest screen incarnation, a wack-job heiress named Penelope who becomes the central love interest in The Brothers Bloom, the new film from Rian Johnson (Brick) that opens in select Canadian markets Friday.
Starring opposite Weisz are Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo, two con men called Bloom who look to the nutty rich girl for their retirement nest egg. The boys are hoping to seduce the introverted shut-in and take her cash, but when one of the brothers falls for her the sting shifts in surprising ways.
Weisz says she had to fake a variety of eclectic skills to nail her imaginatively introverted character just for the opening montage. Fortunately, two weeks of rehearsal were built into the largely European shoot, allowing Weisz to learn enough about piano, guitar, banjo, skateboarding, photography and card tricks to pull off the part as it was written.
“...The card trick is all me. It’s not CGI. For some reason people think you could insert someone else’s hand in there. But it took me four weeks to learn. I couldn’t even shuffle a deck before we started, so I always had a pack of cards with me...”
Read the full interview here
Canada.com
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Adrien Brody stretches with Brothers Bloom
Published on: May 26, 2009
After partying much of the night away at the premere for 'The Brothers Bloom' Adrien Brody sat down with Chron.com to discus his upcoming film.
"...There are so many levels of the story, and there is a romantic aspect that I had been looking for. Rian created a real timeless world..."
Read the full interview here.
Chron.com
By: Ruthe Stein -
Rian Johnson Interview: The Brothers Bloom
Published on: March 23, 2009
The director dishes about the making of The Brothers Bloom, Brick, and those Wes Anderson comparisons.
He's done it again. Rian Johnson, that is. The refreshingly unassuming director of 2005's remarkable teenage noir thriller Brick has once again made the old seem new, the tired seem fresh, and the implausible both plausible and endearing. The Brothers Bloom, which he himself describes as a "con men love story," is fascinatingly original. Not in premise perhaps, but in tone, setting, and the conclusions it draws about life, love, and other such cons. Film.com's sat down recently to discuss his most recent film, as well as what he makes of Wes Anderson comparisons, his writing process, and the con artistry of filmmaking.
"...Dialogue is something I really enjoy; in some ways I feel like I enjoy it too much and that's one thing I've been trying to work on as a writer, not saying everything with dialogue and trying to pull back on it. As a writer, it's so tempting to put everything into words..."
Read the full interview here.
