Law Abiding Citizen

drama
108 mins
Release Date: october 16, 2009
Starring: jamie foxx, gerard butler, bruce mcgill, colm meaney... more »
Director: f. gary gray

Phoenix Review

If a thousand BostonHerald.com commenters chained to a thousand typewriters produced a movie script, it would probably read an awful lot like F. Gary Gray’s vigilante-revenge thriller. Read More »

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Rating: r for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language
Official Site: http://www.lawabidingcitizenfilm.com/
Cast: jamie foxx, gerard butler, bruce mcgill, colm meaney, leslie bibb, michael irby, regina hall, viola davis
Director: f. gary gray
Writer: kurt wimmer
Producer: lucas foster, gerard butler, alan siegel, mark gill, kurt wimmer, robert katz
Synopsis: clyde shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. when the killers are caught, nick rice, 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 10 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.

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