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The Escapist

2008Movie1 h 42 minNR

Thriller
62
DecentGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Letterboxd3.4/5Metacritic565.7Rotten Tomatoes67%63%
62
DecentGoodWatch score
IMDb6.7Letterboxd3.4/5Metacritic565.7Rotten Tomatoes67%63%

Summary

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Drop-in friendly
  • Pure escapism

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  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Gets your pulse racing.

Not for laughs or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

The Convenient Store Next DoorRare · in 26 titlesLenny makes use of the fact the confessional wall in the chapel abuts the laundry, and that prisoners have relatively free access to the chapel, to surreptitiously weaken the wall of the confessional…Sinister Shivin 62 titlesRizza hands a shiv made from a melted plastic comb to one of his defaulting customers and gives him the choice of cutting off his thumb or three fingers.All 30 tropes

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