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  • 2008
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell wit...

Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh

Written By: Ric Roman Waugh

  • 2008
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Felon

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
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Summary A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell wit...

Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh

Written By: Ric Roman Waugh

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Felon's dialogue is overheated and some of its plot twists are preposterous, yet it's still white-knuckle tense, and held together by dozens of small, well-observed moments.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Mr. Dorff’s hot-wired portrayal of a prisoner under physical and psychic siege gives Felon its emotional through line as Wade’s attitude metamorphoses from stunned disbelief, to terror, to despair, to fury and finally to hope.
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The most startling performance comes from Val Kilmer as Wade's hardened cellmate, a man who combines bitterness with wisdom.
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Harold Perrineau gives unintentionally comic expression in Felon to the delineation between his character's public and private scruples.
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50
Val Kilmer, as a polite horn-rimmed sociopath with a heart of gold, keeps showing up to drop Nietzschean pensées.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
A good cast and disciplined direction add some distinction to Ric Roman Waugh's Felon, which is basically the old tale about an innocent man corrupted by a stay in prison.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
40
There are times when a Kilmer performance is like watching a clock move: well-timed and oddly compelling, even though it's totally predictable. That's the case with Felon, which doesn't belong to Kilmer but which he steals anyhow.
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Production Company Stage 6 Films, Tucker Tooley Entertainment, Pantry Films
Release Date Jul 18, 2008
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
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Tagline No Rules. No Hope. No Way Out.
Website http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/felon/
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