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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   26,942 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Roderick Taylor (screenplay) &
Bruce A. Taylor (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
14 September 2007 (USA) more
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Tagline:
How many wrongs to make it right?
Plot:
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations more
User Reviews:
Terrific performances from Jodi Foster and Terrence Howard more (254 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
À vif (Belgium: French title) (France) [fr]
Üks vapper naine (Estonia) [et]
A Estranha em Mim (Portugal) [pt]
A másik én (Hungary) [hu]
Brave One (Japan: English title) [en]
Bureibu wan (Japan) [ja]
Die Fremde in dir (Germany) [de]
Drugata v men (Bulgaria: Bulgarian title) [bg]
Ektos eaftou (Greece) [el]
Içindeki yabanci (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Il buio nell'anima (Italy) [it]
L'épreuve du courage (Canada: French title) [fr]
La extraña que hay en ti (Spain) [es]
Mé druhé já (Czech Republic) [cs]
Neustrasiva (Serbia) [sr]
Neustrasna (Slovenia) [sl]
Odwazna (Poland) [pl]
Stranger in You (Finland) [fi]
The Stranger Inside (Sweden) [sv]
Valente (Brazil) [pt]
Valiente (Mexico) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality.
Runtime:
122 min | Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title 'Sweet Revenge'. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Erica goes into the bathroom of the bar to refresh herself, she wets her hair and head, leaving her hair dripping wet. When they cut to the next part of the scene, where she applies her lipstick, her hair is perfectly dry - no shine, no evidence of wetness - one could argue it is even styled. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Erica: [voiceover, doing her radio show] I'm Erica Bain. And as *you* know, I walk the city. I bitch and moan about it. I walk and watch and listen, a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city. Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dmitri Panchenko swims his morning laps...
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Soundtrack:
Burning On Both Ends more

FAQ

What is the music from the trailer?
I saw this movie and loved the song they played in the beginning and end but can't find it anywhere!! Anyone know what it's called? (Not the song from the trailer but in the actual movie.)
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22 out of 32 people found the following review useful.
Terrific performances from Jodi Foster and Terrence Howard, 9 February 2008
9/10
Author: disdressed12 from Canada

this movie was much better than i had hoped or expected it to be.it basically turns the vigilante genre on its head,and has a female character as the vigilante.like any vigilante movie,it certainly poses tough questions.it contains some terrific performances in it's two lead characters,Jodi Foster as the vigilante,and Terrance Howard as the cop on her trail.both are outstanding and very credible in their respective roles.Foster really makes you sympathetic to her character and rooting for her,even though you probably shouldn't.Howard's character is also sympathetic,because he has mixed feelings,but has to follow the law.he comes off very convincingly as someone who is conflicted.the movie is well paced and appropriately dark.even before the end of the movie,i thought it was well done,but the ending caught me totally off guard.it elevated the movie a notch.for me,The Brave One is a 9/10

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