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The Next Three Days is a 2010 American film written and directed by Paul Haggis, with Fred Cavayé also credited on the screenplay, based on Anything for Her. Haggis produced it with Anthony Katagas as executive producer, for Starz Entertainment. Stéphane Fontaine served as director of photography, and the score is by Danny Elfman and Alberto Iglesias. It is a drama, crime and action film set in New York and Pittsburgh, and filmed in Pittsburgh. The cast includes Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy and Olivia Wilde. Starz Entertainment and Netflix distributed the film, which had a budget of $30,000,000 and a revenue of $67,448,651, with a runtime of 133 minutes.
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7.1Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Cast
- Russell Crowe as John Brennan
- Elizabeth Banks as Lara Brennan
- Ty Simpkins as Luke Brennan
- Brian Dennehy as George Brennan
- Helen Carey as Grace Brennan
- Olivia Wilde as Nicole
Themes
- homicide
- falsely accused
- women's prison
- murder
- jail
- suicidal
- female prisoner
- prison visit
- single father
- appeal
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
214,310 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
Metacritic
52/100
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Paul Haggis
- Screenplay by
- Paul Haggis
- Based on
- Anything for Her , by Fred Cavayé Guillaume Lemans
- Produced by
- Michael Nozik Olivier Delbosc Paul Haggis Marc Missonnier
- Starring
- Russell Crowe Elizabeth Banks Brian Dennehy Olivia Wilde Liam Neeson
- Cinematography
- Stéphane Fontaine
- Edited by
- Jo Francis
- Music by
- Danny Elfman
- Production companies
- Lionsgate Highway 61 Films Fidélité Films
- Distributed by
- Lionsgate
- Release dates
- November 9, 2010 ( 2010-11-09 ) (New York City) November 19, 2010 ( 2010-11-19 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 133 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $67.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Anything for Her
- Director
- Paul Haggis
- Screenwriter
- Fred Cavayé
- Cast member
- Glenn Taranto
- Composer
- Alberto Iglesias
- Producer
- Paul Haggis
- Production company
- Starz Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Stéphane Fontaine
- Narrative location
- Pittsburgh
- Filming location
- Pittsburgh
- Duration
- 133
- FilmAffinity ID
- 786816
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.thenextthreedaysmovie.com
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- Commons category
- The Next Three Days
- publication date
- 2011-01-20
- executive producer
- Anthony Katagas
- title
- The Next Three Days
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 52/100
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Next Three Days is a 2010 American crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe. A remake of the 2008 French film Pour elle (Anything for Her), the plot follows a husband who takes extreme measures to break his wife out of prison after she is wrongfully convicted of murder. Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson also star.
Filmed on location in Pittsburgh in late 2009, the film was theatrically released in the United States on November 19, 2010 by Lionsgate. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $68 million worldwide against a production budget of $30 million.
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