Brownies (film)
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| Directed by | Hanung Bramantyo |
| Produced by | Cindy Christina Novi Christina Mitzy Christina Leo Sutanto |
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Hanung Bramantyo Salman Aristo Eric Sasono |
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Marcella Zalianty Bucek Depp Philip Jusuf Arie K. Untung Luna Maya |
| Music by | Gigi |
| Cinematography | Tommy Jepang |
| Edited by | Cesa David Luckmansyah |
| Distributed by | SinemArt |
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114 minutes |
| Country | Indonesia |
Brownies is a 2004 Indonesian film directed by Hanung Bramantyo. It is about a career woman who falls for an entrepreneur over their mutual love of brownies.
Mel (Marcella Zalianty) is a young creative director at an advertising agency who is engaged to Joe (Philip Jusuf). However, she catches him having sex with another woman and breaks off their relationship. This devastates Mel, who becomes incapable of bearing the sight of him and destroys their pictures together. For revenge she begins flirting with numerous men. However, her best friend Didi (Elmayana Sabrena) convinces her to not become like Joe.
Didi takes her to a local café, where Are (Bucek Depp), an aspiring novelist, loans books and serves brownies. Although Mel loves eating the chocolate confections, she cannot cook them well; Are, meanwhile, cooks delicious brownies but has not them since his mother died. The two spend time together and eventually begin falling in love, despite their class differences: Are was once a street child, while Mel has been raised wealthy. They are able to reconcile these differences, and Are gives Mel hints on cooking brownies.
However, Mel continues to have feelings for Joe and, when he invites her to dinner, does not come to Are's birthday; she is later disappointed when Joe reveals that he had intended a business dinner. Not long after Are has finished writing his novel – with Mel as his publicist – Joe says he is willing to break off his relationship with his new fiancée Astrid (Luna Maya) and return to Mel, if Mel can help him break up with her.
Mel tells Are that she cannot come to the launch, which upsets him. Before she can leave for the dinner, Didi accosts her and tells Mel that she has become just like Joe, breaking people's hearts. After several hours contemplating and cooking brownies, Mel decides to go to the launch but arrives after it is over. She goes to a nearby park where they had often dated, hoping to find him. As she sits crying, disappointed at not seeing him, Are comes behind her and the two confess their love, walking away together and sharing a brownie.
For Brownies, director Hanung Bramantyo used high-definition video; according to Bramantyo, it was the first Indonesian films to use the technology. Bramantyo had previously directed several television series and films, but Brownies was his first film meant to be commercial. The title was chosen because Bramantyo liked eating brownies.
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