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Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
3,184 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul HaggisDirector
- Paul HaggisScreenplay
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Russell CroweJohn Brennan
- Elizabeth BanksLara Brennan
- Ty SimpkinsLuke Brennan
- Brian DennehyGeorge Brennan
- Helen CareyGrace Brennan
- Olivia WildeNicole
- Daniel SternMeyer Fisk
- Jason BegheDetective Quinn
- Aisha HindsDetective Collero
- Michael BuieMick Brennan
- Remy NozikJenna
- Liam NeesonDamon
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Themes
homicidefalsely accusedwomen's prisonmurderjailsuicidalfemale prisonerprison visitsingle fatherappealcollege professorescape plan
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