Harry Brown
Harry Brown is a Londoner who is as a bit of a loss - quite a bit of a loss actually. He’s lost his child and more recently his wife. He’s lost the tranquility of his neighborhood to thugs and pushers but when he loses his only friend Leonard Attwell (David Bradley) at the hands of those local hoodlums the ex British marine decides it’s time to take action. His most fierce opponent however isn’t the local lawbreakers, it’s himself. He’s a septuagenarian with emphysema and a very meager pension. Still the resourcefulness he’s earned medals for while serving in Northern Ireland get him a decent arsenal in short order and the bad guy casualties start the stack up. Hot on the tail of his vigilante activity is D.I. Alice Frampton (Emily Mortimer) who is also assigned to investigate Leonard’s murder. She in turn gets little support from her arrogant superior who feels she should be on a cushier assignment which she unexplainably abandoned to get down and dirty in the trenches. Michael Caine bolsters his long running legacy as Harry Brown.