Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543075387 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 20, 2003 Running Time: 132 minutes Sales Rank: 27383 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 1980
Description: 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 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. Powerful and disturbing, Brubaker won acclaim for its gritty realism and Oscar nominated screenplay.
Amazon.com: Through solid dramatic impact and global exposure on cable TV, Brubaker gradually joined the ranks of all-time best prison movies. While preparing to direct Ordinary People, Robert Redford brought his considerable star power to bear on his title role as a prison reform warden, in an unnamed Southern state, who poses as an inmate to expose corruption, violence, and administrative abuse in Wakefield, a prison farm where trustee inmates are armed and encouraged to shoot at would-be escapees. Originally developed for director Bob Rafelson and ultimately filmed by Stuart Rosenberg, this rugged exercise in social commentary has undeniable power, even if some its characters--including Redford's--seem more like stick-figure ethicists than real human beings. It's also got a dynamite supporting cast including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, and Morgan Freeman in one of his earliest films. Bolstered by his Oscar-winning directorial debut, Redford didn't star in another film until The Natural ended his four-year hiatus. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - An earnest work
I have always had a soft spot for the 1980 film "Brubaker." This earnest work, detailing horrible conditions in a Southern prison, stars Robert Redford in fine superstar form as liberal warden Henry Brubaker attempting to reform the conditions of a penal system suffering from decades of neglect. "Brubaker," in many ways, is the end of a glorious 1970's era of Redford's career. He would soon become a director ("Ordinary People" in 1980), and would work only sporadically as an actor for the next 10 years, evolving into the older roles we see today.
Redford's character mysteriously arrives on the scene as a quiet inmate, witnessing a variety of shocking injustices including torture, rape, maggot-infested food and murder. After 30 minutes of grime (which evidently takes place over several days), he steps forward, revealing himself to be the new prison warden.
Rating: - Hpw can we bring prisons back within habeas corpus and human rights
Another film, but in 1980 it was one of the first, on prison reform. The interest is in the fact that the new boss of the prison gets inside the prison as an inmate, unknown of everyone in the prison. So we get a first part that depicts, from inside, all the unethical dealings and purely criminal acts from the prison guards as well as from the inmates. Simple prisoners are the victims of all kinds of violence from the trustees, from the bullies and they have to buy their way through this permanent ordeal even from the doctor who sells his medical assistance, not to speak of the slave labor the prison provides to local contractors or businesses, entrepreneurs in a word that may turn into undertakers, and even the finagling and embezzling and trafficking of the prison guards with the food and anything that can be taken, legally or illegally, from the prisoners and sold at a price. The second part is the first dealings ... Read More
Rating: - UGH- BLAH-DOUBLE UGH !
WHAT WAS REDFORD THINKING WHEN HE AGREED TO DO THIS PIECE OF KA-KA ?
AFTER THE FIRST TWENTY MINUTES, I THREW THIS CRAP INTO THE GARBAGE
WHERE IT BELONGS. CAN YOU GIVE MOVIE LESS THAN NO STARS ?
Rating: - The best of Robert Redford
This is a must see movie for all Robert Redford Fans. I promise you won't be you bought this movie. I recommend it as one of his best. This is an Adult movie of life in a prison and i wouldn't be letting anyone under age 15 watch it.
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- An earnest work
- Hpw can we bring prisons back within habeas corpus and human rights
- UGH- BLAH-DOUBLE UGH !
