the escapist

Director: rupert wyatt

Actor: brian cox,damian lewis,joseph fiennes,seu jorge

Data Published: Fri Jun 20 2008

Genres: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Key Words: escape,prison,prison rape,chapel,prison escape

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961728/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escapist_(2008_film)

Description: The Escapist is a movie starring Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, and Joseph Fiennes. Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to...

Plot: The film runs two narratives simultaneously, preparation of the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in fourteen years that his cherished daughter is a drug addict and near death following an overdose, he starts to think about escaping. He plans an escape with help from Lenny Drake (Joseph Fiennes), Brodie (Liam Cunningham) and Viv Batista (Seu Jorge). But when Perry's new cellmate James Lacey (Dominic Cooper) gets noticed by Tony (the brother of the powerful inmate Rizza), things get more complicated and lead to Tony's death. When Perry receives the bad news that his daughter has died his plans change. Perry nears freedom, as he climbs towards a London Underground exit. The story snaps back to within the prison where Perry is offering himself to be killed by Rizza for failing to bring Lacey to him for punishment. The escape scenes were Perry's hallucinations as he was dying, and he sacrificed himself to cause distraction, allowing the other prisoners to escape.