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Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system.
Jun 20, 1980 · Brubaker is a 1980 movie about a new warden who exposes the corruption and abuse in a prison farm in Arkansas. Based on a true story, the film features Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman and others in the cast.
- (20K)
- Crime, Drama
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1980-06-20
Sep 12, 2010 · Brubaker aims to bring the story to wider audiences while also serving as an "issues" movie. It's a sickening depiction of what happens when foxes mind a hen...
- 2 min
- 186.5K
- theparallaxreview
Posing as an inmate at a small Arkansas prison, the new warden of the penitentiary, Henry Brubaker (Robert Redford), witnesses firsthand the corruption and abuse inflicted upon the prisoners by...
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- Stuart Rosenberg
- R
- Robert Redford
Written by John Chard on June 28, 2014. The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Brubaker is the reform warden assigned to clean up the violence and corruption of Wakefield Prison Farm, a hellhole of sadism where no guards are needed because the prisoner trusties are armed and get time off their sentences for shooting escapees.
A movie about a new warden who exposes and fights the corruption and abuse in a prison farm in Arkansas. He poses as an inmate, reveals his identity, and faces opposition from the local business community and the prison board.
