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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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The roughest and toughest prison farm in America needs a new warden...enter Brubaker. Robert Redford is superb in this classic thriller following one mans effort to clean up a prison filled with violence, deceipt and corruption.
From the moment Brubaker enters the prison - as a convict in an attempt to find out what he is really up against - the movie kicks off in a cloud of dust and dirt that never settles until the credits roll.
A classic prison drama with great performances and top action all the way through. Catch it if you can...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I first came across this film many years ago, am delighted to own it. Fantastic prison drama whose story keeps your emotions flying start to finish. Honestly haven't a bad word to say about this film. One of my all time favourites.
Redford is brilliant and look out for a tall and skinny Samuel L Jackson.
Dont hesitate buy it!!!
Redford is brilliant and look out for a tall and skinny Samuel L Jackson.
Dont hesitate buy it!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Based on a true story, Brubaker is a superior prison drama that should be in every film lover's collection. Henry Brubaker is an idealistic new prison warden, who has been sent to Wakefield prison farm with reform in mind. He takes the unusual step of entering the prison as an inmate, to get a real view of what is going on. The first half hour of the film, before his dramatic revelation, is a grim and unflinching look at the worst of humanity as he observes the corruption, the squalor, the depraved behaviour, the casual violence that the prisoners both endure and mete out. When he takes over as Governor (following a classic scene with Morgan Freeman, 15 years before he won worldwide recognition as Red in his other great prison film, The Shawshank Redemption) he starts to fight back, trying to stop the corruption that leaves the prisoners starving, in rags and in filth. Fighting wardens and inmates who are up to their necks in graft, and governors and businessmen who profit from the slave labour, he soon makes enemies. It is when he finds unmarked graves and starts to uncover even more serious crimes that his position becomes difficult, and eventually the politicians find enough ammunition to fire him before he can make their jobs unsafe.
Redford is perfectly cast as the energetic and idealistic Brubaker, genuinely horrified at what he sees and full of concern for his fellow human beings. For me it counts as one of his best films. The script writer (who was nominated for an Oscar) and director produce a stygian vision of life in the prison, made all the more disturbing by the realisation that these conditions are real, and people are forced to live in this degradation. Redford's Brubaker is a gleaming shaft of light in this darkness as he looks on with concern and revulsion. And while his idealism might have been beaten by the vested interests in the short term, in the long term the end credits show how he was the catalyst that actually allowed serious reform to occur years later.
Also of note is Morgan Freeman, who gets to sing, and Yaphett Koto, an actor not seen often enough in big films, as the head trusty.
Based on a true story, this is a must see film fives stars.
Redford is perfectly cast as the energetic and idealistic Brubaker, genuinely horrified at what he sees and full of concern for his fellow human beings. For me it counts as one of his best films. The script writer (who was nominated for an Oscar) and director produce a stygian vision of life in the prison, made all the more disturbing by the realisation that these conditions are real, and people are forced to live in this degradation. Redford's Brubaker is a gleaming shaft of light in this darkness as he looks on with concern and revulsion. And while his idealism might have been beaten by the vested interests in the short term, in the long term the end credits show how he was the catalyst that actually allowed serious reform to occur years later.
Also of note is Morgan Freeman, who gets to sing, and Yaphett Koto, an actor not seen often enough in big films, as the head trusty.
Based on a true story, this is a must see film fives stars.
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ONE OF THE MOST INSIGHTFUL AND TRULY REMARKABLE PRISON FILM
The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the warden!
Posing as a new prisoner, Brubaker (Redford) discovers vast corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing... Read more
Posing as a new prisoner, Brubaker (Redford) discovers vast corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. F. husseiny
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disappointed as unable to watch it as it said wrong region? unable to play the dvd that i have been waiting eagerly for, now i do not know what to do with it
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Published 11 months ago by JG68
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Anyone who has not seen this film needs to take time out to see it, its a Classic and original that stood out back in the Eighties and is still a Winner Now. Read more
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One of the classic films of our age. Grips the imagination from beginning to end.
Published on 10 July 2009 by Ann Bessant
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love this movie can't tell you how many times i've watched it.then again redford did not make any bad movies.i like all prison movies this is probably one of the best
Published on 25 May 2009 by winston o boogie
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