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Felon
2008
· Movie
· 104 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2533
- IMDb #1282
- Google retired #1606
- Metacritic #2489
- Letterboxd #2485
- Metacritic Critics #2693
+3 more
- Metacritic Audience #2229
- Criticker #1081
- AlloCiné #1599
Every rating
57–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 57, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 59, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A family man accidentally kills an intruder and is convicted of manslaughter. Sent to a maximum-security prison, he is forced to adapt to its brutal culture to survive. He is mentored by a hardened lifer and must navigate the corrupt system and violent inmates to protect himself and his family on the outside.
Details
- Director
- Ric Roman Waugh
- Writer
- Ric Roman Waugh
- Studio
- Pantry Films, Stage 6 Films, Tooley Productions
- Released
- 17 July 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.9M
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