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1980 Certificate 15
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When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more enemies he makes with the .. Read more

Starring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton
Director Stuart Rosenberg
Genres Drama

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When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more enemies he makes with the townspeople who have benefitted from the corruption. Soon Brubaker's in big trouble--and it looks as if no one is powerful enough to help. This powerful drama received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Starring Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith
Director Stuart Rosenberg
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 5 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 04 Oct 2004
Production year: 1980
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Robert Redford is in reformist mode here, determined to oust brutality and corruption from a state prison farm. Director Stuart Rosenberg piles on the agony with sequences of bleak action, while the acting — especially from Jane Alexander and Yaphet Kotto — is formidable enough to take on all that social responsibility. It's a touch downbeat, and at times ponderous and sanctimonious, but this prison drama still sounds a shrill warning and sends out an ominous message to those who care about what society does with its misfits.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Redford is Brubaker, all gritty integrity and inner resolve as the new warden of a Southern prison farm, who arrives... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    I'm getting ready to tell you something

    The title of my review will be lost on some people but remember it when you hire out the movie... Superb acting by Redford and Hamilton and an early appearance by Freeman!

    Screenplay based on a book by Thomas Murton (worth reading) and whilst some think the script is clumsy - I wouldn't agree.

    At times the movie isn't pacy but we've gotten far to used to 'blockbuster consumerable pace' and this movie instead invests in characterisation - something that is often lost today. The movie clearly is all about the characters and the back drop of the prison just serves as the medium to develop the ethical and moral points that Rosenberg (director) wants to make.

    The ending isn't Hollywood and for me that's great.

    Super, super, super - think unslick Shawshank...

    PJ

      • PJ Martin from Belfast, Northern Ireland
      • Posted 01 Jul 2006 10:41

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    Rated - 3 stars

    Brubaker

    Not bad. On a scale from 1to 10 , 10 being shawshank redemption, i'd give this a 5.

      • A customer from Sheffield
      • Posted 29 Apr 2008 20:06

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