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Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by ...
Jun 20, 1980 · Brubaker is a crime drama film based on a true story of a former prison administrator who exposed corruption in Arkansas prisons. Robert Redford stars as Henry Brubaker, who poses as an inmate and becomes the warden of Wakefield Prison Farm.
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- 1980-06-20
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 ...
W.D. Richter. Screenplay, Story. Stuart Rosenberg. Director. Arthur A. Ross. Story. Written by John Chard on June 28, 2014. The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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. Robert Redford stars in this potent drama based on the real life story of Tom Murton, the prison superintendent who exposed ...
Linda Deutsch Associated Press Brubaker is a grim, often powerful prison movie based on the true story of convict torture and mass murder in a Southern penitentiary. Mar 4, 2019 Full Review ...
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Brubaker. "Brubaker" is a grim and depressing drama about prison outrages - a movie that should, given its absolutely realistic vision, have kept us involved from beginning to end. That it doesn't is the result, I think, of a deliberate but unwise decision to focus on the issues involved in the story, instead of on the characters.
