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Law Abiding Citizen is a american film of genre Drama directed by F. Gary Gray released in USA on 15 october 2009 with Jamie Foxx
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 october 2009
Length 1h44
Directed by F. Gary Gray
OriginUSA
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films, Films about capital punishment
Rating73%
Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American crime drama thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer and stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The film takes place in Philadelphia and tells the story of a man driven to commit multiple murders while targeting not only his family's killer but also a corrupt criminal justice system. Law Abiding Citizen was released theatrically in North America on October 16, 2009.
The film was nominated for a Saturn Award as the Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film of the year, but lost to Inglourious Basterds. The film also garnered NAACP Image Awards nominations for both Jamie Foxx (Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture) and F. Gary Gray (Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture).
Synopsis
Philadelphia, 1999. In a violent home invasion, engineer Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is forced to witness the rape and murder of his wife and young daughter by Clarence James Darby (Christian Stolte) and his accomplice Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart). Prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) is unable to use DNA evidence to securely convict both accused. Unwilling to take a chance on lowering his high and yet unbeaten 96% conviction rate, he chooses to make a deal with Darby (the actual murderer), letting him plead guilty to a lesser charge, in return for testifying against Ames. Ames is falsely found guilty of masterminding the break-in and both murders and is sentenced to death. Shelton feels betrayed by Rice's actions, as he had pleaded with him not to make the deal and to at least try convict both of them, and because he chose to release the actual killer. Darby serves his shortened sentence and is released just a few years later.Actors
Jamie Foxx
(Nick Rice)
Gerard Butler
(Clyde Alexander Shelton)
Bruce McGill
(Jonas Cantrell)
Colm Meaney
(Detective Dunnigan)
Leslie Bibb
(Sarah Lowell)
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