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Brubaker [1980] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Stuart Rosenberg Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £1.84 as of 22/11/2009 08:22 GMT details You Save: £11.15 (86%) New (17) Used (5) from £1.84 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 7563 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 125 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036018821 ASIN: B0002VF4NA Theatrical Release Date: 1980 Release Date: October 4, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: great stuff May 25, 2009 winston o boogie (glasgow scotland) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful love this movie can't tell you how many times i've watched it.then again redford did not make any bad movies.i like all prison movies this is probably one of the best Brubaker July 10, 2009 Ann Bessant (UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful One of the classic films of our age. Grips the imagination from beginning to end. Are American prisons beyond human rights? November 27, 2007 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 2 out of 5 found this review helpful 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 of the new boss with the problem and we discover even more scandalous crimes from inside the administration including the systematic torturing and killing of resisting inmates. The third part deals with the reaction of the prison board, the senator, the governor, and other officials when they learn what is happening, i.e. the attempt to open up the various chapters of this book of torture and killing. And then we discover some more embezzling and the will to cover it all up. They will eventually fire that resisting warden. We also discover in this third part that prison reformers are ready to accept any compromise, i.e. to cover up the crimes of all officials provided they get some investment for the prison, provided the truncheons get gilded points. The last scene is the emotional departure of the fired warden and a last written statement on what happened afterwards showing or proving the story was a true story. Of course the point of view of the inmates themselves is not explored, but the film is very effective about prison reform and what the minimum has to be: to give back to the inmates all their human rights lest they may go to court to fight for them, which is slightly romantic for us to believe that. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines br /

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