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Brubaker is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bob Rafelson released in USA on 20 june 1980 with Robert Redford

Brubaker (1980)

Brubaker
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Released in USA 20 june 1980
Length 2h12
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating70% 3.5488753.5488753.5488753.5488753.548875

Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker, who attempt 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 Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal.

The film features a large supporting cast including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill, and an early appearance by Morgan Freeman. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1981 Academy Awards.

Synopsis

In 1969 a mysterious man (Robert Redford) arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas. As an inmate, he immediately witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care. Brubaker eventually reveals himself—during a dramatic standoff involving a deranged prisoner who was being held in solitary confinement—to be the new prison warden to the amazement of both prisoners and officials alike.

Actors

Robert Redford

(Henry Brubaker)
Yaphet Kotto

(Richard 'Dickie' Coombes)
Jane Alexander

(Lillian Gray)
Morgan Freeman

(Walter)
David Keith

(Larry Lee Bullen)
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