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Prisoners
How far would you go to protect your child?
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
- Original title
- Prisoners
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $46,000,000
- Revenue
- $122,127,446
MrKidoshi
Jun 5, 2026 · via TMDB
Absolutely great movie. Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal's acting is at TOP level. I would give this movie 8/10. These type of masterpieces are very rare in Cinema these days.
Getoff13
Jun 4, 2026 · via TMDB
Wow.I mean acting and a story is 10/10.Jake did such a good performance.You can feel the story and its like movie ends in a moment.From the start to the end you enjoy.All the actors did such a work specialy the 2 leeding actors.Its like in real life not something imaginary.enjoy
CinemaSerf
Sep 4, 2025 · via TMDB
If proof were needed of the versatility of both Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal then this film has to be it. Jackman delivers what can only be described as a visceral performance here as “Keller” (HJ) and his family prepare to celebrate Christmas. Right from the start, we sense their’s a bleak and chilly town, but the family atmosphere as daughter “Anna” (Erin Gerasimovich) and her best friend “Joy” (Kyla-Drew) are amongst friends enjoying their day. As times ticks on, though, he notices that the girls have gone AWOL. No amount of yelling or local searching is helping so the police are duly called in. That’s the purview of “Loki” (JG) who has unorthodox methods (and tattoos) and who not only has to try to find the girls but contain the increasingly unbridled anger of a father who will stop at nothing. Their first lead comes in the form of “Alex” (Paul Dano) whom you could say isn't quite the full shilling and who appears to know something. What, though? Interrogation reveals little but “Keller” isn’t convinced and so upon his release after the statutory forty-eight hours he takes matters into his own, brutal hands! Now “Loki” has more to investigate as he hones on on another suspect who keeps snakes on suitcases! With both men becoming exasperated by their lack of progress, which one - if either - will get a break that might track down the girls. The question writ lathe throughout is one of what wouldn’t you do for your child? The law is fine for everyone else, or when it gets results, but when it fails - even the most benign of souls can become a monster. Driven, vengeful, cruel and pretty damn useful with a hammer and some plumbing. In case you are wondering, there are twists and turns galore and although I did actually manage to guess who the villain of this piece was, the denouement itself is something really quite unexpectedly incomplete. The photography and the soundtrack both help capture the crescendoing frenzy that reminded me a little of “Psycho” (1960) and with delicately strong supporting efforts from Viola Davis and Maria Bello as the equally terrified mothers and from Terence Howard as the doubly conflicted “Franklin”, this is a powerful thriller that is unnerving pretty much throughout.
kisaligol
Dec 19, 2022 · via TMDB
Prisoners is a largely generic revenge / suspense / mystery "they have my kid" tale with a predictable plot that gives itself away too early. No attempt at realism, this is Scooby-Doo style investigation - lie detectors are treated seriously, "bad guys" are largely 1-dimensional with poorly explained motives designed to surprise rather than give insight, etc. It tries to make up for this in a few ways: a) bump up the intensity of scenes (comes across forced and awkward), b) add extra violence and dark semi-religious symbolism (seems out of place and largely meaningless), and most importantly c) maintain an air of mystery by throwing left-field plot points at you every 3-5 minutes to keep your attention. If you carefully note the clues, about half way through the film it strongly indicates the finale. After that the air of mystery that keeps the film feeling suspenseful largely dissolves and you are left with what feels like a AI-generated script desperately trying and failing to throw you off the initial clues. The film's greatest redeeming quality is its attempt to turn some revenge film character archetypes on their head. It is not always successful, but the attempt to break cliches is always welcome! I suspect a much better film will be inspired by this.
tmdb28039023
Sep 10, 2022 · via TMDB
Prisoners is a carefully constructed labyrinth, deceptively simple and very clever. The material was nothing new even when the film was released, but director Denis Villeneuve (pre-Dune) and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski work a few unexpected twists and turns into their maze to keep us on our toes. The key element, however, is Hugh Jackman’s career-best performance as Keller Dover, a father whose patience for police work quickly runs thin when Detective Loki (the always effective Jake Gyllenhaal) fails to find Dover’s kidnapped little daughter. It will surprise no one that Dover decides to take the law into his own hands, recruiting Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard), his best friend whose daughter has also gone missing, to kidnap the only suspect – whom the police has ruled out for the moment –, take him to an abandoned house, and beat a confession out of him. This is par for the course in the movies, but is it realistic? Can a father, however desperate he may be, really go from zero to psycho in no time flat? The film makes this transition 50% more believable by making the character a committed survivalist, meaning that he was halfway there all along. And even if we still found it hard to believe, Jackman would just browbeat us into believing it with a sadistic, ballistic, animalistic skin-shedding, raw nerve-baring performance wherein he doesn't just go berserk; he goes full on Beserker. In some twisted way, all this makes sense; the antagonist or antagonists are just as crazy as Dover, if not more: making children disappear is their way of “making war with God”. With that in mind, who better than a monster to find a monster? Dover may not in fact be too far off either, or is he? In one of those twists I mentioned, the movie toys with the Law of Economy of Characters by casting Paul Dano as the mentally challenged man on whom Dover’s suspicions (and fists, among other objects) fall. Gyllenhaal’s work is as strong Jackman’s, but more subtle and nuanced; he gives his Loki an eye tic which lets us know that, although he has solved all his cases, and belying his usual calm and collected demeanor, he has not gotten to where he is without some traumas of his own.
The Movie Mob
Aug 19, 2022 · via TMDB
**This heavy film is not for everyone but for those that enjoy suspenseful crime cinema, this is one of the absolute best.** A crime thriller that brilliantly manages its slow pace to create the same dread the characters feel in the hearts of the audience. Every passing second steals the parents' hope away that they could ever find their children alive. Everything about this movie emphasizes the story's emotion, from the acting and muted color tones to the sets and directing.
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Hugh Jackman
Keller Dover
Jake Gyllenhaal
Detective Loki
Viola Davis
Nancy Birch
Maria Bello
Grace Dover
Terrence Howard
Franklin Birch
Melissa Leo
Holly Jones
Paul Dano
Alex Jones
Dylan Minnette
Ralph Dover
Zoë Soul
Eliza Birch
Erin Gerasimovich
Anna Dover
Kyla-Drew
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Len Cariou
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David Dastmalchian
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Brad James
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Jeff Pope
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Michelle Keller
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Jane McNeill
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Jason Davis
Paul Brewer (uncredited)
Katrina Despain
Kim Milland (uncredited)
Brody Rose
Bill Brewer (uncredited)
Justin O'Neal Miller
Assistant Art Director
Patrice Vermette
Production Design
Roger Deakins
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Roger Deakins
Director of Photography
Donald Mowat
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Andy Dylan
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Elizabeth Davidovich
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Erik Schultz
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Kurt Hockenberry
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Tim Bell
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Christian J. Fletcher
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Raven-Danielle Baker
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Denis Villeneuve
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Joel Cox
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Barbara Harris
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Mark Wahlberg
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Adam Kolbrenner
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Andrew A. Kosove
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Broderick Johnson
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John Weber
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Katy Wood
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Joseph S. DeBeasi
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Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Tom Ozanich
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Alan Robert Murray
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Aug 30, 2013
Telluride Film Festival
Sep 12, 2013
Beverly Hills, California
Sep 20, 2013
