Brick

A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director {|Rian Johnson|}'s hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a {|Dashiell Hammett|} mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan ({|Joseph Gordon-Levitt|}) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of the high-school social scene and its more insidious underbelly when the body of his former girlfriend Emily is found lying lifeless in a remote creek. Though the pair had been on the outs, Brendan can't seem to sha…