Brubaker (Blu-ray) R
One man against a cruel system.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 11 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 7, 2013
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Redford | |
Performer: | Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto, Murray Hamilton, Wilford Brimley, John Glover, M. Emmet Walsh & Morgan Freeman | |
Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg | |
Edited by | Robert Brown | |
Screenplay by | W.D. Richter | |
Composition by | Lalo Schifrin | |
Cinematography by | Bruno Nuytten | |
Produced by | Ron Silverman | |
Executive Production by | Ted Mann |
Entertainment Reviews:
... a vivid, entertaining and shamelessly manipulative "crusading" melodrama about the impact of a reform warden on a barbarous penal institution.
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Washington Post
Brubaker is a dramatic movie with a social conscience and a welcome change from the primarily fluffy-headed film fare of the summer of 1980.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/5 --
intense and a bit cliched
Shadows on the Wall
[H]andsomely made...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The first half-hour is powerful stuff, but after Brubaker reveals his true identity, the movie begins to falter, with the one-dimensional nature of the characters (particularly the warden himself) eventually stripping the story of any dramatic charge.
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Creative Loafing
Brubaker is a grim, often powerful prison movie based on the true story of convict torture and mass murder in a Southern penitentiary.
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Associated Press
Redford is the main attraction, obviously, even though his princely good looks -- like the movie's 'idealistic crusader against the Establishment' earnestness -- are almost too much of a good thing.
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DVDJournal.com
Product Description:
When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more enemies he makes with the townspeople who have benefitted from the corruption. Soon Brubaker's in big trouble--and it looks as if no one is powerful enough to help. This powerful drama received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.