Brubaker

Brubaker is a 1980 prison drama movie directed by Stuart Rosenberg and stars Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, Morgan Freeman, and features Nicolas Cage is an uncredited role. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox with the screenplay by W.D. Richter and based on the 1969 novel Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams.

Plot

Brubaker is the new warden of a prison farm who secretly enters the jail disguised as a prisoner to see the true conditions. He discovers that the guards are violent, use torture, and force the inmates to work like slaves to make money for local businesses. When he reveals his identity and tries to fix the corruption, he faces heavy resistance from the guards and the state government. After Brubaker finds a hidden cemetery containing the bodies of murdered prisoners, the corrupt officials fire him to cover up the truth and cancel his reforms. However, his work inspires the inmates; two years later, they take their case to the Supreme Court, which eventually orders the prison to be reformed or closed because the old, cruel system was illegal.

Other websites

• Brubaker on IMDb
• Brubaker at the TCM Movie Database
• Brubaker at AllMovie