Prisoners

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Prisoners

R

2013

2h 33m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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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.

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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.

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

04/17/2015

A+

This film haunted me for days and weeks after seeing it, and the feeling still lingers.

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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.

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Miles Surrey

The Ringer

09/29/2023

The tense thriller that put its director on the map...

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/24/2022

4/5

“Prisoners” offers some slick foreboding, crafty twists, and a satisfying ending.

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Matt M

@MattMontague 5h

Great performance from Hugh jackman and brilliant ending!

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Don V

@bondo150 1d

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.

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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

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David K

@RT67442712 Jul 25

The tone of this movie was perfect for the plot. There was a dark vibe that was necessary for this story and both Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal played their roles to perfection

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J H

@UpstateNYThriller Jul 22

7.8/10 Mystery/ crime Hugh Jackman's daughter goes missing, Jake Gyllenhaal is PA detective trying finds them Hugh takes matter into own hands, lots of twists in the movie Bad guy looks like ben Feldman, other one is the new Riddler guy

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Cristina G

@RT68411707 Jul 17

I waited for something more interesting.

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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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