The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Robert Redford
as Henry Brubaker
Yaphet Kotto
as Richard 'Dickie' Coombes
Jane Alexander
as Lillian Gray
Murray Hamilton
as John Deach
David Keith
as Larry Lee Bullen
Morgan Freeman
as Walter
Matt Clark
as Roy Purcell
Tim McIntire
as Huey Rauch
Richard Ward
as Abraham Cook
Jon Van Ness
as Zaranska
John Chard
Corruption and Murder told with cathartic style. It's odd that whenever talk of Prison base films crops up you rarely see Brubaker mentioned as a viable piece of work, which to me personally is a damn shame because it's origin source provides a worthy story to be involved in. Based on the wri...
aushro3
One of the top 3 prison based movie ever made but highly underrated, sometimes I feel really so sad when see that there are many many top class movies from 80"s & 90"s are very underrated while they need or deserve a really very high attention and fame too,and this one "Brubaker" is one of them....
Wuchak
**_A maverick prison warden uncovers corruption and tries to make positive changes_** In 1967-1968, a state penal farm in Arkansas gets a new warden (Robert Redford) who discovers condoned sexual abuse, severe beatings, electrical torture and extortion by inmates with guns who work as "trusty" g...