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Brubaker is an earnest, right-minded, consistently unsurprising movie about a penologist named Brubaker (Robert Redford), who sets out to reform a single corrupt prison and finds himself bucking an entire system, including the state administration that appointed him to his job.
Overview. The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. W.D. Richter. Screenplay, Story. Stuart Rosenberg.
A fictionalised dramatisation of Tom Murton’s 1969 report exposing endemic corruption in the US penal system is certainly brutal in places but leans too heavily on deceptively cliche story beats. Stuart Rosenberg’s prior prison drama Cool Hand Luke casts an inescapable shadow over Brubaker.
