Academy Award-winner Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain, The English Patient), returns to his contemporary roots and directs his first original screenplay since Truly Madly Deeply. In this intimate relationship drama, set in multi-cultural London Minghella unites an award-winning cast, many of whom have shone in his previous films.

Breaking and Entering stars Jude Law (Talented Mr Ripley), Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), Robin Wright Penn (Forrest Gump), Vera Farmiga (The Manchurian Candidate), Ray Winstone (Cold Mountain), Martin Freeman (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply).

Breaking and Entering is a modern drama which revolves around a series of thefts - some criminal, some emotional - set against a backdrop of London's changing geographical and cultural landscape. Will (Jude Law)) is a partner in a thriving landscape architecture firm which he runs with his friend, Sandy (Martin Freeman). Professionally, things could not be better but Will spends less and less time at home with his beautiful, melancholy partner, Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her troubled 12 year-old daughter, Bea. Will's office has recently relocated to King's Cross, the centre of Europe's most ambitious urban regeneration site and their state-of-the-art studio repeatedly attracts the attention of a local gang of thieves. After one of the break-ins, Will follows teenaged freerunner Miro (Rafi Gavron) back to the apartment he shares with his mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), a Bosnian refugee. With his relationship already in crisis, Will embarks on a passionate journey into both the wilder side of himself and the city in which he lives.

The film is a co-production between Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company and is produced by Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack and Timothy Bricknell. Production design is by Alex McDowell (Fight Club, Minority Report), cinematography by Benoit Delhomme (The Scent of Green Papaya, Merchant of Venice, Cyclo) with music composed by Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley, Cold Mountain) and Rick Smith and Karl Hynde of the group Underworld.