Bronson (film)

Bronson is a 2008 British fictionalised biographical film cowritten and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy. The film follows the life of notorious prisoner Michael Gordon Peterson, who was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter. Born into a respectable middleclass family, Peterson would nevertheless become one of the United Kingdoms most dangerous criminals, and is known for having spent almost his entire adult life in solitary confinement. Bronson is narrated with humour, blurring the line between comedy and horror.

Director Refn was not permitted to visit Bronson in prison because he is not from Britain. He was only allowed two phone calls with him.citation needed Bronson opened in a single theater in North America and made 10,940. The film ended up earning 104,979 in the U.S with the widest release being intheaters. Internationally it made 2,155,733 for a total of 2,260,712. ........

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