Brubaker

Name: Brubaker
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Released: 1980-01-01

1980 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

FilmfilmQ798239

Released: 1980
, January 22, 1981
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1.filmdienst.de/film/details/26786/brubaker
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Director: Stuart Rosenberg
, Bob Rafelson
Screenwriter: W. D. Richter
, Arthur A. Ross
Producer: Ted Mann
Cast: Robert Redford
, Yaphet Kotto
, Jane Alexander
, Morgan Freeman
+25 more
Runtime: 132 min
Genre: drama film
, prison film
Country of origin: United States

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Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal. The film features a large supporting cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill and an early appearance by Morgan Freeman. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1981 Academy Awards.

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Director of photography: Bruno Nuytten
Film editor: Robert Brown
Title: Brubaker
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay(February 17, 1981) nominee: W. D. Richter, Arthur A. Ross · statement is subject of: 53rd Academy Awards
Color: color
FSK film rating: FSK 12
Narrative location: Arkansas
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/53035
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Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 54/100(January 5, 2026) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 11 critic review
74%(February 12, 2025) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 23 critic review
6.7/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Brubaker”Retrieved 2021-10-06
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Kijkwijzer rating: 12 content descriptor: Violence
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1.kijkwijzer.nl/films/brubaker/Retrieved 2025-07-05
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