Word: warden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best friend, Red Redding (Morgan Freeman...
...long, interest-bearing view, and he's well played by Robbins, an actor who once made an agreeable specialty of nutsiness but is even better at bland scheming. He makes his way in prison society by doing tax work for the screws, ultimately making himself invaluable to the crooked warden and a source of solid ironic humor to the audience. Even so, his character could not survive without Red's example. Red is the guy who can get you anything, from a pack of butts to a movie-star poster. He's all self-containment, never raising his voice...
...times are changing. Look around you at all the silver hair here," said precinct warden Julia Thibodeau, who has been counting ballots for the city for 46 years...
...tells you about the 150 shots he had to remove or trim in ( Natural Born Killers to secure an R rating from the classification board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). There was the bring-me-the- head-of-Tommy-Lee-Jones scene, where prisoners put the warden's head on a spike. There was the see-through-the-palm-of-Robert-Downey-Jr. shot, after Mallory blows a hole in the newsman's hand. Stone has more, if you want to hear them...
...Mallory come. A brutish detective (Tom Sizemore) hopes to capture these miscreants and maybe write a best seller about it. A tabloid-TV newsman (Robert Downey Jr.) figures he can exploit their exploits, turning this Mansonized Romeo and Juliet -- 52 murders, no regrets -- into media darlings. A crazed warden (Tommy Lee Jones) is determined to achieve fame as the man who put them to death. It's the ideal recipe for a Stone-crazy parable of greed and abuse. Shake well, pull the pin and stand back...