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- BreakoutPrison LifeInjusticeConfinedLife is a BitchMind and SoulFighting the SystemDown on Your Luck more...
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- DramaIndependentThriller
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- 20th Century70s
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- TurkeyPrison
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- Brief NudityStrong Violent Content
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Midnight Express, 1978
English, Maltese, French
UK, USA
Profile of Midnight Express
The mood of Midnight Express is captivating, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a prison breakout, prison life, and injustice. It is a drama, independent, and thriller movie. In approach, Midnight Express is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a prison. The setting is Turkey. Midnight Express happens in the 20th century. It is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book. The movie is known for being a classic, an Oscar winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that Midnight Express includes brief nudity and strong violent content.
Summary of Midnight Express
Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country. Billy (Brad Davis), suffering through the harsh realities of the Turkish penal system, sees a glimmer of hope when his father (Billy Kellin) arrives from the States with the intention of securing his son's release. But when that effort fails and the prison's savage environment becomes too much to bear, Billy opts for the only possible solution: breaking out of jail and riding the "midnight express"--prison slang for escape--to freedom.
Director Alan Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING), aided by Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning script, fastens an unflinching gaze into the darkest recesses of physical and emotional cruelty. Supporting cast members Randy Quaid, John Hurt, and Bo Hopkins give stellar performances, and Giorgio Moroder supplies a jagged yet entrancing soundtrack for a film that is at one and the same time a Kafkaesque nightmare, a riveting exposé, and a testament to the dogged human thirst for dignity.
Details
| Language: | English, Maltese, French |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 6 October 1978 |
| Runtime: | 121 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Billy Hayes
as Jimmy Booth
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- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 02.July.2009
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- by: Michael Cain
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