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Year: 1980
Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Cast:

Robert Redford (Henry Brubaker), Yaphet Kotto (Richard 'Dickie' Coombes), Jane Alexander (Lillian Gray), Murray Hamilton (John Deach), David Keith (Larry Lee Bullen), Morgan Freeman (Walter), Matt Clark (Roy Purcell), Tim McIntire (Huey Rauch), Richard Ward (Abraham Cook), Jon Van Ness (Zaranska), M. Emmet Walsh (C.P. Woodward), Albert Salmi (Rory Poke), Linda Haynes (Carol), Everett McGill (Eddie Caldwell), Val Avery (Wendel), Ron Frazier (Burl Willets (as Ronald C. Frazier)), David Harris (Duane Spivey (as David D. Harris)), Joe Spinell (Floyd Birdwell), James Keane (Pinky), Konrad Sheehan (Glenn Elwood)

Storyline:

Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker reveals to the guards and administrators that he's not a criminal at all, but the new warden, assigned by the governor to infiltrate the facility undercover. His identity confirmed, Brubaker takes office and sets about shaping up policies and procedures, despite resistance from, incredibly, even some of the more entitled convicts. With the help of the prison's chief trustee (Yaphet Kotto) and a compassionate ally (Jane Alexander), the warden effects some positive change, but powerful business interests line up against him when his ideas threaten their financial bottom line. A reform-minded, socially conscious, and politically liberal picture of the type usually associated with director Norman Jewison, this fact-based prison drama was the result of a troubled production that saw original director Bob Rafelson replaced with Cool Hand Luke (1967) and The Amityville Horror (1979) helmsman Stuart Rosenberg. Despite the backstage turmoil, Brubaker was an acclaimed release and an Oscar-nominated, career-finale triumph for co-screenwriter Arthur A. Ross, creator of Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) and father of successful writer/director Gary Ross. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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