Posts Tagged ‘convict’

48 Hrs. (1982)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Longest Yard, The (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Cox, Courteney | Schneider, Rob | Fichtner, William | Cromwell, James | Sandler, Adam | Rock, Chris | Reynolds, Burt | Nelly | Irvin, Michael | Williamson, Walter | Goldberg, Bill | Crews, Terry | Sapp, Bob | Turturro, Nicholas | Singh, Dalip | Sebastian, Lobo | Diaz, Joey | Reevis, Steve | Kelly, David Patrick
Directors: Segal, Peter
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Paul “Wrecking” Crewe was a revered football superstar back in his day, but that time has since faded. But when a messy drunk driving incident lands him in jail, Paul finds he was specifically requested by Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a duplicitous prison official well aware of Paul’s athletic skills. Paul has been assigned the task of assembling a team of convicts, to square off in a big football game against the sadistic guards. With the help of fellow convict Caretaker, and an old legend named Nate Scarborough to coach, Crewe is ready for what promises to be a very interesting game. It’s only the warden and the guards who have no idea who or what they’re up against, with Paul the driving force behind the new team.

Identity (2003)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Liotta, Ray | Peet, Amanda | Hawkes, John | Molina, Alfred | DuVall, Clea | McGinley, John C. | Scott, William Lee | Busey, Jake | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | De Mornay, Rebecca | Argenziano, Carmen | Bell, Marshall | Kenzle, Leila | Letscher, Matt
Directors: Mangold, James
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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

Hard Word, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Griffiths, Rachel | Taylor, Robert | Edgerton, Joel | Richardson, Damien | Findleton, Rhondda | Atkinson, Kate | Colosimo, Vince | Sonkkila, Paul | Gyngell, Kym | Nkono, Dorian | Whittaker, Stephen | Neilson, Torquil | Bridges, Don | Bowles, Doug
Directors: Roberts, Scott
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Exit Wounds (2001)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DMX | Seagal, Steven | Washington, Isaiah | Anderson, Anthony | White, Michael Jai | Duke, Bill | Hennessy, Jill | Arnold, Tom | McGill, Bruce | Vadim, David | Mendes, Eva | Taylor, Matthew G. | Mastropietro, Paolo | Daly, Shane | Drag-On
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn’t follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it’s very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Fletcher, Louise | Redfield, William | Berryman, Michael | Brocco, Peter | Brooks, Dean R. | Brown, Alonzo | Crothers, Scatman | Cumbuka, Mwako | DeVito, Danny | Duell, William | Elic, Josip | Fendors, Lan
Directors: Forman, Milos
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McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, “fifteen going on thirty-five”). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he’s crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Hawke, Ethan | Rule, Ja | Bello, Maria | Bryant, Peter | Byrne, Gabriel | Cecere, Fulvio | Coates, Kim | Craven, Matt | Cunningham, Courtney | de Matteo, Drea | Dennehy, Brian | Dillon, Hugh | Fishburne, Laurence | Fong, Tig | Frost, Darren | Geljo, Jasmin
Directors: Richet, Jean-François
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On New Year’s Eve, inside a police station that’s about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick (Hawke) must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop (Fishburne).