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Brubaker

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Original title

Brubaker

Year

1980

Running time

132 min.

Country

United States

Director

Stuart Rosenberg

Screenwriter

W.D. Richter

Cast

Music

Lalo Schifrin

Cinematography

Bruno Nuytten

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

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

#65 Best Movies Based on a True Story

Awards: 1980: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

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Critics' reviews

"This muckraking melodrama has considerable power and some strong performances"

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"'Brubaker' is a well-crafted film that does a harrowingly effective job of portraying the details of its prison, but then it populates it with positions rather than people (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Competent but dreary"

Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
"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
"A vivid, entertaining and shamelessly manipulative 'crusading' melodrama"

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post

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