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Sat, Dec 17, 2005
The Brothers Grimm
The Movie:
Matt Damon and Heath Ledger play Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, two brothers who spend their time traveling from one small town to the next small town, conning the local simple folk out of their hard earned money by performing staged magic tricks and pawning them off on them as the real deal. Their gig becomes far less profitable for them when an officer in Napoleon's army named Delatombe (Jonathon Price) exposes them for the fraud's that they are.
Taken into custody and obviously guilty of swindling the good people of late 1700s Germany, Delatombe decides that instead of torturing them or locking them up that he will send them to the remote village of Marbaden, deep in the heart of the forest. It seems that there has been a rash of mysterious disappearances there, primarily of children, and Delatombe wants the Brothers Grimm to use their cunning to uncover the mystery of... Read the entire review
The Brothers Grimm