The family man Wade Porter is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura and their son Michael: they have a nice house, he has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar that had broken into their house in the middle of the night on his lawn. He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. During the transportation, there is an incident in the bus and Wade is framed and sent to the maximum security wing under the command of the corrupt Lieutenant Jackson. His cell-mate John Smith that was sentenced to life revenging the death of his family befriends Wade and gives helpful advices and hope to Wade to return to his family.

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This is one of the best Prison movies Ive seen.
Val Kilmer is dam good as a Lifer and Stephen Dorf is realistic as the man defending his family who ends up in hell.
Fans of OZ will recognize Augustus (wheelchair guy) as the sadistic head officer. Damn good movie.

When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time.

yer watched it the other night.


great movie!

Still haven't seen this even though we have it

I'm love prison movies so i'll be checking this out at my local video store.

It's tops.

yer it's a bloody great movie, i've seen it a few times

Was recommended this movie a few months ago, watched it, was not disappointed. Also has Michael, Walt's dad from Lost in it.

clicky

If you haven't seen it yet grab a copy. It kicks some serious ass all over the place.

Watched this ages ago. Very much rate this movie as one of the best prison movies I've seen. highly recommend A++

Yeh if you missed this one grab it, its f***en awesome!

I'm sure i saw this listed in the foxtel epg this morning


yeah... on showtime 6.25pm tuesday

Didnt think there would be a topic on this movie so i didnt bother to search >.<

Man that part where he first comes onto that yard area and heres these racially divided groups black hispanics whites, i was spooked just watchin it !

Watched some docos on Discovery Channel - Americas Hardest Prisons and Supermax. Id like to think i could look after myself but i dont know if i could deal with Prison. Certainly not like what happened to this guy.

How do you possibly go back to a normal life after s*** like that.
Its more akin to being in a War.
There has to be a better way to deal with violent psychos.
Lobotomy or something.

yeah i saw on Foxtel yesterday. First 10 minutes really pulls you in to the movie.