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The Next Three Days
What if you had 72 hours to save everything you live for?
Life 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.
- Original title
- The Next Three Days
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Revenue
- $67,448,651
JPV852
May 24, 2020 · via TMDB
Seen this movie a handful of times over the years, and still holds up so well. A solid thriller with fine performances by Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks, and features a great supporting cast in small parts (seems about 5 min. each), including Liam Neeson, Daniel Stern (wish he'd do more straight dramas), Brian Dennehy (RIP) and Olivia Wilde. Some nice suspense-filled moments throughout (the bump key scene still gets me). However, the final scene with detective "seeing" how the crime went down seemed like something the studio wanted to give a clear conclusion, and felt so unnecessary. **4.0/5**
TheCakerBaker
Jul 3, 2013 · via TMDB
If Paul Haggis is going to keep on making movies, would somebody do us all a favor and sign him up for a basic screenwriting class? I mean, please, this film could be a lesson all on its own on how not to write a decent screenplay. Its all in here: one-dimensional characters, supremely poor pacing, multiple threads that go absolutely nowhere and completely implausible action sequences. And, you know, it's just a B-thriller. It's not like I haven't seen these mistakes time and time again. What really bothers me is just how highly it thinks of itself. It not only thinks it's interesting (which it isn't whatsoever), but it thinks it's smart, edgy, and it probably even thinks it's clever. I mean, there are so many characters who function for exactly one plot point and are then left behind in the dust. For example, this one chick who's name I forget (did they ever even say her name?) is introduced fairly early on in the film, and looks even like Russell Crowe's love interest. We see the very, very beginnings of a meaningful relationship forming and then it turns out that she was only a device to fill in a little potential plot hole (trying not to spoil the movie.) The same with Russell Crowe's parents, there are a handful of scattered scenes with them showing little glimpses of a meaningful relationship, and then the same exact friggin' thing is done, they're used as a simple (and illogical) plot mechanism. It's almost like one of Paul Haggis's friends was reading the script and said "hey, Paul, this is completely ridiculous, how could they possibly manage to _________" and Haggis wrote in these characters as devices to satisfy the issue, realized they were one-dimensional, and wrote in a pseudo-intelligent relationship (which doesn't in reality make them any better.) And this is how the first 2/3 of the movie moves so dreadfully slowly. I mean, I'm absolutely confident that with a decent editor, the first hour and fifteen minutes could be whittled down to maybe half an hour. They could have especially left out the symbols that don't actually symbolize anything. Which seems silly to say, but the jar of quarters that keeps recurring in the movie not only has no plot significance, but has zero metaphorical significance. They barely explained what they were doing in their house. They were quite literally only in the film to make it look a little deeper. Not to make it more meaningful, but to make it look more meaningful. To make it "smart," and "edgy," and "clever." I don't usually have a problem with making it through a movie but I had to push to make it through this ludicrous, self-righteous mess.
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Russell Crowe
John Brennan
Elizabeth Banks
Lara Brennan
Ty Simpkins
Luke Brennan
Brian Dennehy
George Brennan
Helen Carey
Grace Brennan
Olivia Wilde
Nicole
Daniel Stern
Meyer Fisk
Jason Beghe
Detective Quinn
Aisha Hinds
Detective Collero
Michael Buie
Mick Brennan
Remy Nozik
Jenna
Liam Neeson
Damon
Tyrone Giordano
Mike
RZA
Mouss
Moran Atias
Erit
Nazanin Boniadi
Elaine
Jonathan Tucker
David
Lennie James
Lieutenant Nabulsi
Allan Steele
Sergeant Harris
Rachel Deacon
Duty Nurse
Derek Cecil
Dr. Becsey
Kaitlyn Wylde
Julie
Kevin Corrigan
Alex
Jeff Hochendoner
Alex's Thug Buddy
James Ransone
Harv
Denise Dal Vera
Eugenie
Glenn Taranto
Hospital Security Guard
Veronica Brown
Female Guard 1
Zachary Sondrini
Photoshop Kid
Trudie Styler
Dr. Byrdie Lifson
Fabio Polanco
Phone Repairman
Sean Huze
Prison Guard
Tamara Gorski
Hospital Nurse
Patrick Brennan
Hospital Guard
Brenna McDonough
Brenda
Patrick McDade
Airport Security Chief
James Francis Kelly III
Lab Van Driver
Melissa Jackson
Airline Clerk
Laurence Bennett
Production Design
Michael Fitzgerald
Epk Camera Operator
Craig Haagensen
Second Unit Director of Photography
Camille Friend
Hair Department Head
Caroline Vexler
Stunts
Chick Bernhard
Stunts
George B. Colucci Jr.
Stunts
Meegan E. Godfrey
Stunts
Nicole Callender
Stunts
Scott Burik
Stunts
Paul Haggis
Director
Jean-Pierre Nutini
Electrician
Randi Hiller
Casting
Tamara-Lee Notcutt
Casting Associate
Anthony Katagas
Executive Producer
Marc Missonnier
Producer
Olivier Delbosc
Producer
Paul Haggis
Producer
Anthony Katagas
Unit Production Manager
Danny Elfman
Original Music Composer
Matthew Maude
VFX Lighting Artist
Fred Cavayé
Original Film Writer
Paul Haggis
Screenplay
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Mar 8, 2011
DVD, Blu-ray
