25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery "Monty" Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
The film begins with Monty Brogan and his friend Kostya (Tony Siragusa) saving a dog that he found abandoned in ...
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25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery "Monty" Brogan, a convicted drug dealer who has one last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
The film begins with Monty Brogan and his friend Kostya (Tony Siragusa) saving a dog that he found abandoned in the street. As he drives away, the opening credits roll over shots of the Tribute in Light at the World Trade Center site. The film then cuts to the present (approximately four years have passed) and Brogan is walking the streets of New York with Doyle (the dog he saved). He goes to his old school, where he meets up with his best friend, English teacher Jacob Elinsky (Hoffman), and discusses a get-together at a local club planned later that evening. Elinksy then calls their mutual best friend, Wall Street trader Frank Slaughtery (Pepper)....
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