Bullet in the Brain

Name: Bullet in the Brain
Genre: Short
Released: 2001-11-16
Duration: 14 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tom Noonan, Dean Winters, Cecelia Antoinette

2001
14m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

306

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Outspokenly critical writing teacher allows his criticism to extend to his everyday life and soon learns why that is not a good idea. While the titular "Bullet in the Brain" does its work, w... Read allOutspokenly critical writing teacher allows his criticism to extend to his everyday life and soon learns why that is not a good idea. While the titular "Bullet in the Brain" does its work, we learn by example a bit about the art of writing.Outspokenly critical writing teacher allows his criticism to extend to his everyday life and soon learns why that is not a good idea. While the titular "Bullet in the Brain" does its work, we learn by example a bit about the art of writing.

Director
- David Von Ancken
Writers
- David Von Ancken
- Tobias Wolff
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

306

YOUR RATING

Director
- David Von Ancken
Writers
- David Von Ancken
- Tobias Wolff
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins

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Goofs
Transmission of nerve impulses is not that fast. The bullet wins.

Connections
Featured in Short Fuse: A Collection of Explosive Shorts (2004)

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Featured review

10/10

"Tolle lege"...

...means "take up and read", which is precisely what I felt like doing after having seen this marvelous film.

Von Ancken stimulates and inspires with this breathtaking and superbly executed adaptation of Tobias Wolff's 1995 New Yorker article of the same name. The incredible performance by Tom Noonan is brilliant and provocative and the editing, sound design, cinematography and directing are truly inspired. The nuanced changes and embellishments on the original story are subtle, clever, and make the film cinematically more dynamic. It's lyrical pacing is mesmerizing and begs you to watch it again.

Watch out for this young director...he's going places.