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Name: Brubaker
Released: 1980-7-1
Cast: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Brubaker

R
2h 11m
1980

75%

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Robert Redford stars in this potent drama based on the real life story of Tom Murton, the prison superintendent who exposed scandalous abuse and murder in a state prison. Posing as a prisoner, Brubaker (Redford) discovers corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing himself to be the new warden. His crusade to bring reform puts him in grave danger in this powerful, illuminating film.

Director:

Stuart Rosenberg

Producer:

Ron Silverman

Writer:

W.D. Richter, Arthur Ross

Cast:

Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Reviews

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David Nusair

It's interesting to note that Brubaker, before it devotes itself entirely to the protagonist's exploits, boasts a first act revolving around the happenings within the central penitentiary...

Brubaker is a grim, often powerful prison movie based on the true story of convict torture and mass murder in a Southern penitentiary.

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.

... a vivid, entertaining and shamelessly manipulative "crusading" melodrama about the impact of a reform warden on a barbarous penal institution.

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.

June 22, 2017

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