Felon R

No rule. No hope. No way out.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 12, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 13,881
The plot expands and gets more complex as the story progresses, and the dramatic tension ratchets up Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Nov 14, 2008
Rating: 7/10 -- This tough, uncompromising, cautionary thriller should be a wake-up call about America's outrageously archaic laws insofar as defending the sanctity of home and family. Full Review
SSG Syndicate
Jul 26, 2008
Rating: 3/4 -- Tough, brutish prison drama with an easy windup, but good acting and an uncompromising take on the prison system.
Newsday
Jul 18, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Explores how violence is endemic in the prisoner, no matter their background, almost as soon as their sentencing is handed down. Full Review
Father Son Holy Gore
May 5, 2019
Rating: 3.5/4 -- ...establishes itself as a gritty, thoroughly compelling prison drama that rarely relies on the various tropes of the genre. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 3, 2008
Rating: 2/4 -- A good cast and disciplined direction add some distinction to Ric Roman Waugh's Felon, which is basically the old tale about an innocent man corrupted by a stay in prison. Full Review
New York Post
Jul 18, 2008
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and filmed at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe, Felon is one of the most realistic prison films ever made.
New York Times
Jul 18, 2008

Product Description:

After the system fails Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff), a man who inadvertently killed an intruder in his home while justly protecting his wife and son, the family man faces three years in a maximum security prison where every rule he has ever lived by is thrown out the window. To make matters worse, Porter doesn't get along with his new cellmate (Val Kilmer), most likely because the guy is an epically notorious mass murderer. In order to make it out of his sentence alive, between vicious prisoners and the sadistic machinations of the corrupt Warden Lt. Jackson (Harold Perrineau Jr., LOST), Porter is going to transform himself into the toughest, meanest cat in the joint. This gritty actioner comes from writer-director Ric Roman Waugh, a popular stuntman who has worked on such films as UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, ROAD HOUSE, TOTAL RECALL, and LETHAL WEAPON 2.

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  • UPC: 043396261761
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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