Heaven's Prisoners
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| Directed by | Phil Joanou |
| Produced by | Leslie Greif Andre Morgan Albert S. Ruddy |
| Written by | Harley Peyton Scott Frank |
| Starring | Alec Baldwin Kelly Lynch Mary Stuart Masterson Teri Hatcher Eric Roberts Vondie Curtis-Hall Joe Viterelli Badja Djola Hawthorne James |
| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Harris Savides |
| Editing by | William Steinkamp |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | May 17, 1996 |
| Running time | 132 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000[1] |
| Box office | $5,009,305[2] |
Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 feature film drama starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts. It is based on a Dave Robicheaux novel of the same name by James Lee Burke. The film was directed by Phil Joanou. Harley Peyton and Scott Frank are credited with the screenplay.
In the Electric Mist (2009) is a sequel to Heaven's Prisoners in which Tommy Lee Jones replaces Baldwin as Dave Robicheaux. In the sequel, Robicheaux still lives in Louisiana and has come out of retirement as an Iberia Parish sheriff's detective.
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[edit] Plot
A former police detective in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug smuggler's plane crashes in the lake right before their eyes.
Robicheaux succeeds in rescuing a lone survivor, a Salvadoran girl, whom he and Annie quickly adopt. With the arrival of a DEA officer named Dautrieve and an inherent connection to Bubba Rocque, the leading drug kingpin in the area and Robicheaux's childhood friend from New Iberia, Dave finds himself and his family in danger.
Robicheaux is assaulted by two thugs. With help from his friend Robin, an exotic dancer, he begins to investigate. His longtime acquaintance Bubba denies any involvement, but Dave warns him and Bubba's sultry wife Claudette that he is going to find out who's behind all this and do something about it. He proceeds to track down one of the men who attacked him, Eddie Keats, and splits his head open with a pool cue in Keat's own bar.
Killers come to the Robicheaux home late one night. Robicheaux is helpless to prevent his wife Annie from being killed. He falls off the wagon and neglects the young girl they adopted. Robin comes to stay with them.
Clearing his head, Robicheaux seeks vengeance against the three killers. He first goes after a large man called Toot, chasing him onto a streetcar and causing his death. Bubba and Claudette reassure a local mob boss named Giancano that they won't let this get out of hand, and Bubba gets into a fistfight with Robicheaux, falsely suspecting him of an affair with Claudette.
Eddie Keats is found dead before Robicheaux can get to him. Going after the last and most dangerous of the killers, Victor Romero, he knows that someone else must be giving them orders.
He finds Romero and kills him. Then, going to Bubba's home, Robicheaux discovers that it is Claudette who planned the hit. Bubba shoots her, and Robicheaux calls in the crime.
[edit] Cast
- Alec Baldwin as Dave Robicheaux
- Kelly Lynch as Annie Robicheaux
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Robin Gaddis
- Teri Hatcher as Claudette Rocque
- Eric Roberts as Bubba Rocque
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Minos P. Dautrieve
- Hawthorne James as Victor Romero
- Badja Djola as Batist
- Joe Viterelli as Didi Giancano
- Paul Guilfoyle as Det. Magelli
- Don Stark as Eddie Keats
- Carl A. McGee as Toot
- Tuck Milligan as Jerry Falgout
[edit] Reception
The film opened in fifth place grossing $2,308,797 its opening weekend playing in a total of 907 theaters at its widest point. However the film was a box office failure grossing only $5,009,305 far below its $25,000,000 budget. The film also received generally negative reviews with a 16% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116508/business
- ^ "Heaven's Prisoners (1996)". Box Office Mojo. 1996-06-08. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=heavensprisoners.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ "Heaven's Prisoners". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavens_prisoners/. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
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