Rent Brubaker (1980)
3.6 of 5 from 75 ratings
2h 5min
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- Synopsis:
- Robert Redford stars in this potent drama based on the real life story of Tom Murton, the prison superintendent who rocked Arkansas politics when he exposed scandalous abuses and murders in a state prison. Posing as a new prisoner, Brubaker (Redford) discovers vast corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing himself to be the new warden. His personal crusade to bring reform puts him in grave danger, especially when he insists on exposing a series of secret murders that took place years earlier.
- Actors:
- Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Richard Ward, Jon Van Ness, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery
- Directors:
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Producers:
- Ron Silverman
- Writers:
- W.D. Richter, Arthur A. Ross, Joe Hyams, Thomas O. Murton
- Others:
- Arthur Ross, W. D. Richter
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Behind Bars: Visit These Essential Prison Films, Films From: 1980, Remembering M. Emmet Walsh, The Film Highlights of 1980
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