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| Starring: |
Gerard Butler ,
Jamie Foxx , Leslie
Bibb , Michael Gambon ,
Colm Meaney , Viola
Davis , Bruce McGill |
| Director: |
F. Gary Gray |
| Release: |
October 16, 2009
(theaters)
February 16, 2010 (video) |
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an
upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered
during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie
Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case.
Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the
suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his
accomplice.
Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead
and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to
Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or
key players in the trial will die.
Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail
cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be
neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as
Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the
authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can
stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath
in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means
death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds
himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who
seems always to be one step ahead.
Rated R for strong bloody brutal
violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language
108 Minutes
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