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Brubaker
- Original title
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Brubaker
- Year
- 1980
- Running time
- 132 min.
- Country
 United States- Director
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- Screenwriter
W.D. Richter - Music
Lalo Schifrin - Cinematography
Bruno Nuytten - Cast
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Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Morgan Freeman, David Keith, Murray Hamilton, Wilford Brimley, M. Emmet Walsh, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Richard Ward, Jon Van Ness, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery, Ron Frazier, David Harris, Joe Spinell, James KeaneSee 7 More
- Producer
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20th Century Fox
- Genre
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Drama | Prison Drama. Based On A True Story. 1960s
- Synopsis
- Year 1969. When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself, and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local community business, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt southern prison system, starts making political trouble for the new warden.
- Rankings Position
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- Awards
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1980: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay
- Critics' reviews
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"This muckraking melodrama has considerable power and some strong performances"
Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
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"Competent but dreary"
Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
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"An earnest, right-minded, consistently unsurprising movie (...) It says a lot about a movie that the only mildly interesting characters in it are those who are corrupt"
Vincent Canby: The New York Times
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1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein
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1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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