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Storyline:
The family man Wade Porter is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura and their son Michael: they have a nice house, he has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar that had broken into their house in the middle of the night on his lawn. He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. During the transportation, there is an incident in the bus and Wade is framed and sent to the maximum security wing under the command of the corrupt Lieutenant Jackson. His cell-mate John Smith that was sentenced to life revenging the death of his family, befriends Wade and gives helpful advices and hope to Wade to return to his family.
Additional Information:
Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Produced by: Dan Keston, Nick Phillips, Christopher Wilhem
Written by: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Harold Perrineau, Marisol Nichols, Anne Archer, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer
Music by: Gerhard Daum
Cinematography: Dana Gonzales
Editing by: Jonathan Chibnall
Distributed by: Stage 6 Films
Release date: July 18, 2008 (limited)
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $2,900,000 (estimated)
Critiques:
"Felon's dialogue is overheated and some of its plot twists are preposterous, yet it's still white-knuckle tense, and held together by dozens of small, well-observed moments." Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
"Mr. Dorff's hot-wired portrayal of a prisoner under physical and psychic siege gives Felon its emotional through line as Wade's attitude metamorphoses from stunned disbelief, to terror, to despair, to fury and finally to hope." Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Felon is not a total bust. What does work is because of the strength of the actors. Dorff brings a visceral sense of desperation to his performance, though he does tend to go too big too quickly. Kilmer gives the film its center as an alien, still presence amid the chaos around him." Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
"Stephen Dorff's powerhouse perf as an ordinary Joe trapped behind bars with warring ethnic psychopaths propels Felon well ahead of its expose/exploitation brethren while still avoiding the pious learning curves of Frank Darabont's prestige prison dramas." Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Storyline:
The family man Wade Porter is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura and their son Michael: they have a nice house, he has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar that had broken into their house in the middle of the night on his lawn. He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. During the transportation, there is an incident in the bus and Wade is framed and sent to the maximum security wing under the command of the corrupt Lieutenant Jackson. His cell-mate John Smith that was sentenced to life revenging the death of his family, befriends Wade and gives helpful advices and hope to Wade to return to his family.
Additional Information:
Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Produced by: Dan Keston, Nick Phillips, Christopher Wilhem
Written by: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Harold Perrineau, Marisol Nichols, Anne Archer, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer
Music by: Gerhard Daum
Cinematography: Dana Gonzales
Editing by: Jonathan Chibnall
Distributed by: Stage 6 Films
Release date: July 18, 2008 (limited)
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $2,900,000 (estimated)
Critiques:
"Felon's dialogue is overheated and some of its plot twists are preposterous, yet it's still white-knuckle tense, and held together by dozens of small, well-observed moments." Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
"Mr. Dorff's hot-wired portrayal of a prisoner under physical and psychic siege gives Felon its emotional through line as Wade's attitude metamorphoses from stunned disbelief, to terror, to despair, to fury and finally to hope." Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Felon is not a total bust. What does work is because of the strength of the actors. Dorff brings a visceral sense of desperation to his performance, though he does tend to go too big too quickly. Kilmer gives the film its center as an alien, still presence amid the chaos around him." Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
"Stephen Dorff's powerhouse perf as an ordinary Joe trapped behind bars with warring ethnic psychopaths propels Felon well ahead of its expose/exploitation brethren while still avoiding the pious learning curves of Frank Darabont's prestige prison dramas." Ronnie Scheib, Variety