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Brubaker (1980)

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

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From Time Out Film Guide

Redford is Brubaker, all gritty integrity and inner resolve as the new warden of a Southern prison farm, who arrives disguised as a prisoner so that he may better expose the mugging, raping and murdering cesspit he discovers. By its attribution of every evil to simple human greed, the melodrama remains hamfisted; while Rosenberg's direction (the original director, Bob Rafelson was fired for thumping the producer) signals 'realism' with crude denim-blue tints in every image. After two hours and ten minutes one is left only with a numbing awareness of Redford's charmless charm, the macho image unable (unlike Eastwood or Reynolds) to even contemplate self-irony.

Author: CA 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • lesley fowlie said...
    Posted on May 03 2009 20:29 did steve mcqueen make a appearance in this film heavily disguised
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Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Producer: Ron Silverman

Cast: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman full cast

Duration: 130 mins


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