Breaking

About Breaking

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

Breaking is a 2022 crime thriller film directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. John Boyega appears as Brian Brown-Easley, Michael Kenneth Williams as Eli Bernard, Nicole Beharie as Estel Valerie, and Connie Britton as Lisa Larson.

It runs 103 minutes and was released in August 2022. Written by Abi Damaris Corbin and Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Shelv files it under angry, war veteran, sincere, and bank. In the United States it streams on Hulu. It scores 6.5 out of 10 from 241 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Bird, The Rock, and The Edge of Seventeen make useful companions to Breaking, all filed under matter of fact and hostage situation.