Brubaker
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| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Produced by | Ron Silverman |
| Written by | W.D. Richter Arthur A. Ross |
| Starring | Robert Redford Yaphet Kotto Jane Alexander |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Bruno Nuytten |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1980 |
| Running time | 132 min. |
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Brubaker is a 1980 film about a prison. Robert Redford plays the eponymous lead role of Warden Henry Brubaker.
This is a fact-based biopic about a prison warden who starts his job by disguising himself as one of his own prison inmates to find out what the prison is really like. It is based on a 1969 book by Tom Murton, a warden at the Cummins Prison in Arkansas, and co-author Joe Hyams, Accomplices To The Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal.
In the film, the Brubaker character finds rampant abuse and corruption during the short period he impersonates an inmate. Examples include a prison doctor that charges inmates for care, torture of inmates, procurement fraud (such as purchase of substandard food contaminated with weevils and worms), fradulent insurance, and many more examples.
When the disguise comes off, he does what he must to make things right, and inflames the corrupt officials who have profited from their graft for decades.
The film also stars Yaphet Kotto and Jane Alexander, with a fairly early appearance of Morgan Freeman.
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