Review of Brubaker (1980) by Ron N — 07 Oct 2010
No matter how many times this appears on TV I feel almost compelled to watch this Robert Redford prison drama, it's so good. Not perfect but great. Movies like this and The Candidate show Redfords iconography as an actor and his liberalism leanings both pointing at bettering one's fellow man but also poking fun or poking serious at his own mettle as a man on a quest, probably doomed to fail in some ways hoping to succeed in others.
I'd like to see Redford act again in something some story that has some real grit like this one and get away from preachy liberalism like the movie Lions for Lambs that feels like a lecture rather than compels you to consider alternate viewpoints by the veracity of the man and the drama and truth of the argument.
I want to see the resurgence of the Redford.
This review of Brubaker (1980) was written by Ron N on 07 Oct 2010.
Brubaker has generally received positive reviews.
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