A petty thief is the link between a well-to-do businessman and a single mother struggling to get by in his edgy, emotional drama. Will Francis (
Jude Law) is a successful landscape architect who runs an upscale business with his friend Sandy (
Martin Freeman) in the King's Cross section of London, a neighborhood that has long been plagued by crime and poverty but has lately become the target of a major gentrification program. Will is married to Liv (
Robin Wright Penn), a lovely woman who is troubled by a lack of communication between herself and her husband and emotional problems with their teenage daughter, Bea (Poppy Rogers), who can't sleep and is obsessed with gymnastics. A thief has broken into Will and Sandy's office not once but twice, taking Will's laptop and the company's computer equipment, and Will begins spending his evenings at the shop in hopes of catching the culprit in action. The burglar strikes a third time, and while giving chase, Will sees him make his way into a shabby apartment building. Will learns the criminal is Miro (Rafi Gavron), a 15-year-old refugee from Bosnia. Without revealing what he knows, Will makes the acquaintance of Amira (
Juliette Binoche), Miro's widowed mother who makes a living as a seamstress. As Will begins bringing Amira business on a regular basis, the two strike up a friendship that grows into something much deeper while he keeps his secrets about Miro's criminal activities, though they boy knows his mother's frequent visitor is the lawful owner of the laptop in his room. Breaking & Entering was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Anthony Minghella; it was his first project made from his own original script since Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Interview with Anthony Minghella about Breaking and EnteringCan you say, "Anthony Minghella?!?!" Aaron conducts a video interview of this great director.
(11/10/2006 Starz Denver Film Festival)
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