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Prisoners

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Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), arrests the driver (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
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Prisoners has an emotional complexity and a sense of dread that makes for absorbing (and disturbing) viewing.

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Kate Stables Sight & Sound 07/31/2018
Guzikowski's well-honed thriller occasionally idles under Villeneuve's dark character studies, but the director's powerfully imposed mood of dread elevates what might otherwise have been just a superior police procedural. Go to Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire 06/19/2016
An increasingly sloppy thriller, filled with obvious clues, laughable red herrings, and halfhearted "shock" reveals, played at a snail's pace that lets far too much air into the narrative. Go to Full Review Chris Stuckmann ChrisStuckmann.com 04/17/2015
A+
This film haunted me for days and weeks after seeing it, and the feeling still lingers. Go to Full Review Carla Renata The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24
PRISONERS, however, is the most jaw-dropping thriller I have seen in years!  It was absolutely thrilling, spellbinding and kept my attention from beginning to end. Go to Full Review Miles Surrey The Ringer 09/29/2023
The tense thriller that put its director on the map... Go to Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/24/2022
4/5
“Prisoners” offers some slick foreboding, crafty twists, and a satisfying ending. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Nabil M @AbuHamxa 5d Pretty intensely suspense movie. It’s ending is 👌🏽. See more Jerry K @JKern1963 5d Great acting throughout..... perfectly directed to make you feel the same dread and tension as the characters. See more Lorenz V @RT81576099 Aug 7 Tension until the very end. Difficult to watch if you have kids. Where horror movies are mostly comedies, this thriller feels like a real horror movie. See more Matt M @MattMontague Aug 5 Great performance from Hugh jackman and brilliant ending! See more Don V @bondo150 Aug 4 Hugh Jackman delivers a performance fueled by raw instinct, a father pushed beyond the limits of reason until survival becomes indistinguishable from obsession. Jake Gyllenhaal is his perfect counterweight, quietly assembling fragments while the world around him tears itself apart. Between them is a battle between impulse and patience, both equally haunted. The writing is brilliant because it refuses easy morality. It doesn't hand out heroes or villains in neat little packages. Instead, it forces every character to stand in the uncomfortable space between justice and vengeance, where the right answer is always buried beneath another impossible question. Every conversation carries weight. Every silence carries even more. See more Samuel C @RT44671263 Jul 27 Prisoners is an amazing movie. This film really makes you think and brings you to believe its multiple didn’t culprits. This movie is very disturbing. 10/10 See more Read all reviews
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Denis Villeneuve

Director

Hugh Jackman

Keller Dover

Jake Gyllenhaal

Det. Loki

Viola Davis

Nancy Birch

Maria Bello

Grace Dover

Terrence Howard

Franklin Birch

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Synopsis Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), arrests the driver (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Producer
Broderick Johnson, Kira Davis, Andrew A. Kosove, Adam Kolbrenner
Screenwriter
Aaron Guzikowski
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Production Co
8:38 Productions, Madhouse Entertainment
Rating
R (Language Throughout|Disturbing Violent Content|Torture)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 20, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$61.0M
Runtime
2h 33m
Sound Mix
Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital
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