11 Excellent Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
7. 25th Hour
This is a study of how Norton deals with friends and family before starting his sentence. This is a 2002 Spike Lee movie with Barry Pepper and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The film opens with Edward Norton’s character Monty Brogan rescuing a dog from the middle of the street that has been mauled in a dogfight.
The movie then jumps forward to several years later where Monty is sitting in the park with the dog and contemplating his bleak future. He is facing seven years for dealing drugs for a Russian mobster known as Uncle Nikolai. Despite heavy pressure from the police, Monty has refused to give evidence against his boss.
After speaking with one of his close friends, Monty begins to suspect that his girlfriend Naturelle played by Rosario Dawson is responsible for turning him in to the police. As Monty investigates further, it turns out that the person who turned him in is the one he could never have suspected.
The movie also incorporates the September 11th terrorist attacks into the plot as the tragedy occurred when the movie was still in the development stages.
