Pictures of Harry Brown

Harry Brown lives alone, shut away in one of Britain’s bleak public-housing apartment blocks. As his wife lives out her last days in the hospital, Harry restricts his activities to games of chess in the pub with Leonard, his last best friend. All around them swarms chaos. Their housing estate has been taken over by warring gangs that deal drugs and settle scores with impunity. The police  are reduced to simply informing the victims’ families when the latest shooting or knifing occurs – visits that Hicock calls death-o-grams.  When Harry suffers a horrible loss to the gangs, he quietly decides to act. It’s here that one fact becomes important: Harry Brown served in the Royal Marines, where he spent years battling the IRA in Ulster.