Brubaker

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Brubaker ★★★ 1980 (R)

A sanctimonious drama about a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm. Powerful prison drama. 131m/C VHS, DVD . Robert Redford, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill; D: Stuart Rosenberg; W: W.D. Richter, Arthur Ross; M: Lalo Schifrin.