Stars Rider Strong and Sean Astin who both had parts in the Cabin Fever movie series. Rider Strong in Cabin Fever (2002) and Sean Austin in Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014).
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First of two prison movies for Robert Redford; the second was The Last Castle (2001).
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Based on the real-life efforts of former prison administrator Thomas O. Murton to reform Tucker and Cummins Prison Farms in Arkansas in 1967-68. The film was based on the 1969 book, "Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal" by Murton and Joe Hyams. Murton also served as a technical adviser for the film.
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Second of three collaborations of Wilford Brimley and Robert Redford. The others were The Electric Horseman (1979) and The Natural (1984).
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Making his film debut, Nicolas Cage appears as an extra. This was also the first credited film of Morgan Freeman.
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The name Brubaker used while he was posing as an inmate was Stan Collins.
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The real-life prison, used to play the fictitious Wakefield State Penitentiary, was the Junction City Prison Farm in Junction City, Ohio, which was about fifty miles outside of Columbus. The prison was built in 1904, and had been decommissioned two years prior to filming, and had had its own history of riot and rebellion. The film's Wakefield Penitentiary, is based on both the Tucker and Cummins State Prison Farms, in Arkansas.
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Final theatrical feature film of actor Richard Ward who portrayed Abraham Cook.
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This film was made and released eleven years after its source book "Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal" by Thomas O. Murton and Joe Hyams was published in 1969. The film is a fictionalized version of the book, and was also based on Murton's true-life prison system experiences. It was made and released twelve to thirteen years after the events of the Arkansas prison scandal, which had taken place around 1967-1968.
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One of the final films of Murray Hamilton.
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Second prison picture of Stuart Rosenberg, who had directed Cool Hand Luke (1967). In "The Last Castle", Redford's character was an inmate in a military prison. In "Brubaker," his character's background included a stint as warden of a military prison.
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Similar in style and content to Marie (1985), it involves investigation of the parole and the clemency of inmates, involving corruption of prisons, their staffs, and high-ranking state officials.
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One of two movies first released in 1980 that were set in prisons and featured actor Morgan Freeman. The pair of penitentiary pictures are Attica (1980) and Brubaker (1980).
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Morgan Freeman has appeared in a number of other prison movie, including The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Attica (1980), and The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985).
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Robert Redford was offered three million dollars to play the role of Brubaker.
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The punishment, conditions, corruption, and violence within the prison, depicted in this film, based on the Tucker State Prison Farm and Cummins State Prison Farm prison scandal, became the subject of the common law case of Holt v. Sarver (Arkansas) where it was determined that the Arkansas Prison System violated inmates constitutional rights.
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This film's shooting schedule went over-time, and consequently Robert Redford had to start work on his directorial debut Ordinary People (1980), with very little time between projects.
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Bob Rafelson started as director, but was replaced by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Actors Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford would co-star again in An Unfinished Life (2005) which debuted around a quarter of a century or twenty-five years later.
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At the height of his career and at just 43 years of age, Robert Redford would stay off the big screen for the next 4 years, returning for " The Natural ".
Brubaker - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Brubaker - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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