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  1. Aug 10, 2018 · A Prayer Before Dawn. Action. 116 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2018. Glenn Kenny. August 10, 2018. 4 min read. Even before the central character, Billy Moore, gets thrown into a brutal Thailand prison in this movie, the existence he leads looks excruciating. A stranger in a strange land, the muscular, always-worried-looking Billy (Joe Cole) is a boxer who ...

  2. Aug 18, 2018 · Summary. A Prayer Before Dawn is an extraordinarily brutal and brilliant film; one of the finest of the year, and a reminder of just what the medium can do at its best. A Prayer Before Dawn is the rare film that makes two hours seem like far too long and somehow not nearly long enough.

  3. A Prayer Before Dawn is a 2017 biographical prison drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and written by Jonathan Hirschbein and Nick Saltrese. The film stars Joe Cole and is based on the book A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons by Billy Moore .

  4. Aug 9, 2018 · At once a true story and a daring experiment, this deep dive into a maximum-security prison accompanies Billy Moore (Joe Cole), a young English boxer and heroin addict whose fight career in ...

    • Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
    • 2 min
  5. Jul 17, 2018 · SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of British drug-dealer/junkie/amateur boxer Billy Moore (Joe Cole), who was caught and sentenced to prison in Thailand where he has to fight to survive, and...

  6. Aug 10, 2018 · At once exhausting and astonishing, this no-holds-barred adaptation of British junkie-turned-pugilist Billy Moore’s Thai prison memoir is a big, bleeding feat of extreme cinema, given elevating human dimension by rising star Joe Cole’s ferociously physical lead performance. Read More.

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  8. Aug 7, 2018 · Based on the true-life memoir by Billy Moore and primarily set in Bangkok’s infamous Klong Prem prison, A Prayer Before Dawn is concerned above all with ensuring that we share its main character’s sense of dislocation and entrapment.

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