Brubaker (1980) 7.1
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director:Stuart Rosenberg |
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Brubaker (1980) 7.1
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director:Stuart Rosenberg |
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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Robert Redford | ... | ||
Yaphet Kotto | ... | ||
Jane Alexander | ... | ||
Murray Hamilton | ... | ||
David Keith | ... | ||
Morgan Freeman | ... |
Walter
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Matt Clark | ... | ||
Tim McIntire | ... | ||
Richard Ward | ... | ||
Jon Van Ness | ... | ||
M. Emmet Walsh | ... | ||
Albert Salmi | ... | ||
Linda Haynes | ... | ||
Everett McGill | ... | ||
Val Avery | ... |
When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Robert Redford plays another dignified character, this time as new warden Henry Brubaker posing as an inmate in a corrupt prison to understand the deplorable conditions there. As is the case with any prison-related film, we get to see some really ugly things here. Maybe "Brubaker" goes a little overboard in portraying its main character as a saint, but considering that the main point is to show the inhumanity of this country's penal system (which apparently hasn't changed much since this movie came out), they do a good job. I'd say that it's another movie that, if nothing else, deserves kudos for disproving the "Disney-ized" version of the world that we often get shown. A very good movie.