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  1. Jan 28, 2008 · In his debut feature The Escapist director Rupert Wyatt animates the virtues of the B-movie thriller - direct expression, taut construction and a stripped down psychology-with a more...

  2. Jan 6, 2008 · The Escapist Review. Old lag Frank Perry (Cox) recruits fixer Brodie (Cunningham), hardman Lenny (Fiennes) and dealer Viv (Jorge) for a daring prison break.

  3. The Escapist is the stylish and impressively contained debut from British writer and director Rupert Wyatt. Not only has he delivered a first film that makes you want to see his second, he’s done it by injecting a degree of freshness into one of the most staple of genres, the prison escape movie.

  4. Jan 24, 2008 · The Escapist is a bold, energetic, intense, and inspiring film that surprised and impressed me more than almost any film at Sundance.

  5. www.ign.com › 2008/06/24 › the-escapist-uk-reviewThe Escapist UK Review - IGN

    Jun 24, 2008 · The world of prison has been a fertile breeding ground for some great cinema down the years; the socially conscious '30s classic I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang; the stylish '70s star-drive ...

  6. Jun 20, 2008 · Opening with a close-up of Brian Cox’s wonderfully craggy face and Leonard Cohen’s ‘The Partisan’ on the soundtrack, prison movie The Escapist promises much: the brutal realism of HBO’s ...

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  8. A disjointed narrative tells the story of a ragtag bunch of criminals looking to escape from a maximum security prison so that the orchestrator, Brian Cox's Frank Perry, can see his daughter before she dies from drug abuse complications on the outside.

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