The Brave

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The Brave
Directed by	Johnny Depp
Produced by	Charles Evans Jr. Carroll Kemp
Written by	Gregory McDonald Paul McCudden
Starring	Johnny Depp Cody Lightning Nicole Mancera Marlon Brando Elpidia Carrillo
Music by	Iggy Pop
Cinematography	Vilko Filac
Editing by	Pascale Buba
Distributed by	Majestic Films International
Release date(s)	1997
Running time	123 min.
Country	U.S.
Language	English
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The Brave (1997) is a film adapted from the Gregory McDonald novel of the same title directed by and starring Johnny Depp.

This film was Depp's directorial debut. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, directed and acted in it. The film was first shown at the 1997 Cannes film festival where it received mixed reviews. Since then, Depp has not released the film and the DVD is only distributed outside of the United States of America.

[edit] Plot Summary

The film concerns a Native American man named Raphael who lives with his wife and two children in a remote community that has situated themselves by a rubbish dump in order to find whatever they can to sell to make a living. Raphael, seeing the hopelessness of the situation and his inability to provide for his family, agrees to star in a snuff film for a large sum of money that he hopes will give his family a chance for a better life.

Having been given the money in advance, Raphael is given a week to live and then return to be tortured and killed in front of the camera. The film follows Raphael's transformation with his relationship with his wife and children over the course of his final week of life and his own personal anguish with his fate.