- The Brave
Infobox Film | name = The Brave
caption =The Brave
director =Johnny Depp
producer = Charles Evans Jr.Carroll Kemp
writer =Gregory McDonald Paul McCudden
narrator =
starring =Johnny Depp Cody Lightning Nicole Mancera Marlon Brando Elpidia Carrillo
music =Iggy Pop
cinematography =Vilko Filac
editing =Pascale Buba
distributor =Majestic Films International
released = 1997
runtime = 123 min.
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0118768"The Brave" (1997) is a film adapted from the
Gregory McDonald novel of the same title directed by and starringJohnny Depp .This film was Depp's directorial debut. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, directed and acted in it. The film was first shown at the 1997 Cannes film festival where it received mixed reviews. Since then, Depp has not released the film and the DVD is only distributed outside of the United States of America.
Plot Summary
The film concerns a Native American man named Raphael who lives with his wife and two children in a remote community that has situated themselves by a rubbish dump in order to find whatever they can to sell to make a living. Raphael, seeing the hopelessness of the situation and his inability to provide for his family, agrees to star in a
snuff film for a large sum of money that he hopes will give his family a chance for a better life.Having been given the money in advance, Raphael is given a week to live and then return to be tortured and killed in front of the camera. The film follows Raphael's transformation with his relationship with his wife and children over the course of his final week of life and his own personal anguish with his fate.
Cast
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Johnny Depp - Raphael :Marlon Brando - McCarthy :Marshall Bell - Larry :Elpidia Carrillo - Rita :Frederic Forrest - Lou Sr. :Clarence Williams III - Father Stratton :Max Perlich - Lou Jr. :Luis Guzmán - Luis :Cody Lightning - Frankie :Nicole Mancera - Marta :Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman - Papa :Pepe Serna - Alessandro :Lupe Ontiveros - Maria :Alexis Cruz - Heyman :Chuck E. Weiss - WhizzyExternal links
*imdb title|id=0118768|title=The Brave
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