Journey to the End of the Night (2006)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Eric Eason

Writer (WGA):

Eric Eason (written by)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

You can escape anything but your destiny.

Plot:

The tale of a son and his father separately plotting to escape the desolation of their lives in the lurid underworld of Brazil's sex industry...

Plot Keywords:

Gash In The Face | Breasts | Gun In Mouth | Dying During Sex | Heart Attack

US TV Schedule:

Thur. Oct. 9	4:00 AM	SHOW
Wed. Oct. 15	1:45 AM	SHOW

Cast

Brendan Fraser	...	Paul
Mos Def	...	Wemba
Scott Glenn	...	Sinatra
Alice Braga	...	Monique
Catalina Sandino Moreno	...	Angie
Ruy Polanah	...	The Soothsayer
Matheus Nachtergaele	...	Nazda
Gilson Adalberto Gomes	...	Samy
Milhem Cortaz	...	Rodrigo
Luke Denis Nolan	...	Lazare
Antonio Pinto	...	Detective Moosbruger
Vadin Nikitin	...	Boris
Ana Paula Demambro	...	Drena
Ana Pereira	...	Lola
Cristina Sverzuti	...	Prostitute #2
Karen Bellini	...	Prostitute #3
Gisele Alves	...	Prostitute #4
Claudia Monteny Ghiurghi	...	Magdalena
Manuel Fernandes	...	Shipyard Guard
Rogerio Ferreira Rosa	...	Thug #2
Henry Baabatunde	...	Baaba Mal
Gabriela Rabello	...	Grandmother
André Ceccato	...	Junkie 1
Ivan Gianquinto	...	Junkie 2
Farouq	...	Bosco Tang
Luciane Lima	...	Cocktail Waitress
Johannes Sjöberg	...	Russian Man
Carla Esposito	...	Russian Man's Wife
Tomas Portella	...	Brutal Man
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chelsea Crowe	...	Candy
Márcio Garcia	...	Club Manager

Directed by
Eric Eason

Writing credits (WGA)
Eric Eason		(written by)

Produced by
James Acheson	....	producer
Marcelo Cotrim	....	location producer
Boaz Davidson	....	executive producer
Frank DeMartini	....	producer
Danny Dimbort	....	executive producer
Richard N. Gladstein	....	producer
Manfred D. Heid	....	executive producer
Gerd Koechlin	....	executive producer
Josef Lautenschlager	....	executive producer
Avi Lerner	....	executive producer
Murray Lipnik	....	associate producer
Simon Millar	....	executive producer
Trevor Short	....	executive producer
Adam Shulman	....	executive producer
Ivan Teixeira	....	line producer
Andreas Thiesmeyer	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Elia Cmiral

Cinematography by
Ulrich Burtin

Film Editing by
Kevin Greutert

Casting by
Claudia Monteny Ghiurghi

Production Design by
Francisco de Andrade

Makeup Department
Ben Nye Jr.	....	key makeup artist
Randy Sayer	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Andrezza de Faria	....	production manager
Todd Gilbert	....	post-production supervisor
Hank Levine	....	executive in charge of production: Brazil

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bruce Carson	....	second unit director
Joana Cooper	....	second assistant director
Luiz Ferraz	....	trainee assistant director
Tomas Portella	....	first assistant director
Tomas Portella	....	second unit director
Flavia Zanini	....	second second assistant director

Art Department
Jim Mickle	....	storyboard artist
Zeca Nolf	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Randy Babajtis	....	sound effects editor
Jeremy Balko	....	adr mixer
Brent Findley	....	foley editor
Scott Hinkley	....	additional sound re-recording mixer
Cody King	....	sound editor
Richard Kitting	....	foley editor
Shawn London	....	sound effects editor
Jonathan Miller	....	supervising sound editor
Andrew Morgado	....	adr mixer
Daniel Tripoli	....	adr editor
Daniel Tripoli	....	dialogue editor
Daniel Tripoli	....	supervising dialogue editor
Jonathan Wales	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Kapel Furman	....	armourer (as André Kapel)
Kapel Furman	....	special effects crew (as André Kapel)

Visual Effects by
Rachel Clement	....	digital cleanup artist
Scott Coulter	....	visual effects producer
Miroslav Dikov	....	visual effects coordinator
Veselina Georgieva	....	visual effects supervisor
Velislava Gospodinova	....	visual effects compositor
Veselina Haralanova	....	visual effects supervisor
Milen Jiliazkov	....	digital compositor
Peter Keranov	....	digital compositor
Danail Lazarov	....	assistant visual effects editor
Jordan Markov	....	visual effects editor
Stanislav Stoynev	....	digital lead artist
Stefan Tchakarov	....	visual effects production supervisor
Adriana Valcheva	....	lead artist
Albert Vivas	....	digital intermediate scanner
Vladimir Zdravkov	....	visual effects technical support

Stunts
Clayton Barabskin	....	stunt driver
Roberto Barabskin	....	stunt double
Roberto Barobskin	....	stunt double
Bruce Carson	....	stunt coordinator
Helio Febronio	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Helio Febronio	....	stunt driver
Jose Galdino	....	stunt driver
Anderson Lima	....	stunt double
Edivarria Maria	....	stunt double
Hellmer Marthyn	....	stunts assistant
Murillo Martins	....	stunts
Wagner Martins	....	stunt double
Call Martyn	....	stunt driver
Gerson Pinherio	....	stunt double
Carlos Sabugo	....	precision driver
Jose Luis Sesson	....	stunt double
Alexander Siqueira	....	stunt driver
Barbara Tekalec	....	stunt double
Rik Walters	....	stunts
Uili Wenceslau	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Michelli Ang	....	video assist operator
Fabio Burtin	....	first assistant camera
Marcos Camargo	....	still photographer
Heitor Mizuki	....	video assist operator
Jorge Pfister	....	Steadicam operator
José Roberto	....	second assistant camera

Editorial Department
Julius Friede	....	digital intermediate colorist
Michael Grawert	....	on-line editor
Candice Levy	....	assistant post-production coordinator
Dennis Little	....	digital intermediate project coordinator
Sarah Priestnall	....	production supervisor Digital Intermediate

Music Department
Elia Cmiral	....	orchestrator
Elia Cmiral	....	score programmer
Gabriele Corcos	....	music supervisor
Dana Niu	....	orchestrator
Jesse Parmet	....	additional composer: music stock
David G. Russell	....	musical programmer: synthesizer & percussion
Lee Scott	....	music editor
Matias Vellutini	....	additional composer: music stock
John Whynot	....	score mixer

Other crew
Rachel Abarbanell	....	assistant to producers
Prince Bagdasarian	....	film and high definition coordinator
Donald Bruce	....	production controller
Joana Clark	....	production assistant
Marcelo Cotrim	....	location manager
Carla DiBello	....	assistant to producer
Susan L. Levin	....	unit publicist
Rodrigo Meireles	....	script supervisor assistant
Rita Moraes	....	production secretary
Josy Peres	....	production coordinator
Paula Queiroz	....	assistant production coordinator
Celia Regina	....	production coordinator
Chico Ribeiro	....	script supervisor
Marcos Sahm	....	production assistant
Alexandra Salas	....	assistant to director
Arturo Lopez Uscanga	....	scanning manager
Julia Vellutini	....	assistant to producers
Julia Vellutini	....	executive assistant

Thanks
JoAnne Colonna	....	special thanks (as JoAnne Colonna Acheson)

Production Companies

• Millennium Films
• Big City Pictures
• FilmColony
• Swingin' Productions
• Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG IV
• Hollywood Intermediate
• O2 Filmes

Distributors

• Double Life Productions
• First Look International (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Nu Image Films (2006) (worldwide) (all media)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2006) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Worldwide FX

Other Companies

• Cinetic Media  sales agency
• Sonic Magic  sound post-production

Also Known As:

12 Horas até o Amanhecer (Brazil) (cable TV title)
The Little Thief (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug use.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA | Germany | Brazil

Language:

English | Portuguese | Yoruba

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Germany:16 | Germany:18 (DVD rating) | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Brazil

Company:

Millennium Films

Movie Connections:

References Sonic the Hedgehog (1991/I) (VG)

The Night of Entwined Mistakes

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra (Scott Glenn) and his son Paul (Brendan Fraser) own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie (Catalina Sandino Moreno), and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs. In the night that they have scheduled a negotiation with African buyers, their African liaison dies while having sex with the travesty Nazda (Matheus Nachtergaele). Sinatra proposes to the Nigerian dishwasher of the brothel, Wemba (Mos Def), to travel to the harbor of Santos, close the business with the drug dealers and in return he would receive a large amount. Wemba accepts but while returning to his car in the harbor, he is attacked by two smalltime thieves and passes out. His lack of contact with Sinatra and Paul leads to a sequence of misunderstandings with a tragic end.

"Journey to the End of the Night" is a movie about losers that have a second chance in life, but waste it along a night of entwined mistakes. None of the characters is totally evil, they are ambiguous and develop a sort of empathy with the viewer. Scott Glenn plays an owner of a brothel, but also a family man concerned with the future of his son. The addicted and violent character of Brendan Fraser has a deep trauma from his childhood. Angie, played by Catalina Sandino Moreno, is divided between Sinatra and Paul. Wemba, played by Mos Def, is a simple honest worker that accepts to participate in a dirty business to raise easy money. The excellent Brazilian actor Matheus Nachtergaele performs a travesty in a key role. Watching this film somehow I slightly recalled "After Hours", a comedy of errors in New York. The lighting uses weird colors (yellow, red, green) and together with the bad weather, highlights the underworld of a poor and dark area in the cold São Paulo, in a film-noir style. The story is predictable, there are many coincidences, but I liked this movie. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "12 Horas Até o Amanhecer" ("12 Hours Until Dawn")