Four Brothers
Short description
Four adopted brothers raised by the same woman in Detroit come together again after she is killed during a robbery at a neighbourhood store. Bobby is hot-tempered, Angel is a ladies' man, Jeremiah has settled into family life and business, and Jack, the youngest, is still chasing music. Though unrelated by blood, the four return to pay their respects and then set out to track down whoever was responsible. Their search quickly puts them at odds with a city where the people in charge are not what they seem, and the brothers find that their old ways of handling trouble carry consequences they did not expect.
John Singleton directed the film, the eighth in the feature run that began with Boyz n the Hood in 1991 and continued through Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Rosewood, Shaft, Baby Boy and 2 Fast 2 Furious. David Elliot and Paul Lovett wrote the screenplay, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura produced for Paramount. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André 3000 and Garrett Hedlund play the four brothers, with Terrence Howard as Lt. Green and Josh Charles as Detective Fowler.
Made for about 45 million dollars, the film took in roughly 92 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.8 out of 10 from around 168,000 votes, matching the 6.8 from about 2,500 votes on TMDB, while critics gave it 5.8 from 132 reviews, so audiences have been kinder to it than reviewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Mark Wahlberg improvised almost all of his character's lines.
- The brothers' house was filmed in the gritty suburbs of Hamilton (an English-speaking port city in the Canadian province of Ontario).
- All the snow shown in the film is real, not artificial.
- The car chase scene was originally planned to be filmed using Hot Wheels toy cars.
- The scene in the combined bathroom took two days to film. For 12 hours a day, Mark Wahlberg had to sit naked on the toilet, Garrett Hedlund had to stand under a hot shower, and Tyrese Gibson had to walk around in a bathrobe. At the end of filming, Wahlberg had to be lifted off the toilet, and Hedlund's skin was peeling from prolonged exposure to the water.
- In the bar scene where the brothers drink Jack Daniel's whiskey, they have concentrated apple juice in their glasses.
- In the initial script, all the brothers survived. In the second version, they decided to kill Jack to give the brothers even more reason to hate Victor Svet.
- When Jack is shot in the legs in the film, Garrett Hedlund fell and hit his head on a telegraph pole. After the second take, blood flowed from the head wound.
- Actors Ethan Hawke, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck all turned down the offer to play Bobby. Hawke liked the script but couldn't find time to film. Damon and Affleck refused, considering the script “too harsh”.
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