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Prisoners is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay written by Aaron Guzikowski. The film has an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano.[3]

Prisoners
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Denis Villeneuve
Written by	Aaron Guzikowski
Produced by	Broderick Johnson Kira Davis Andrew A. Kosove Adam Kolbrenner
Starring	Hugh Jackman Jake Gyllenhaal Viola Davis Maria Bello Terrence Howard Melissa Leo Paul Dano
Cinematography	Roger A. Deakins
Edited by	Joel Cox Gary D. Roach
Music by	Jóhann Jóhannsson
Production companies	Alcon Entertainment 8:38 Productions Madhouse Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) Summit Entertainment (International)
Release dates	August 30, 2013 (2013-08-30) (Telluride Film Festival) September 20, 2013 (2013-09-20) (United States)
Running time	153 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$46 million[2]
Box office	$122.1 million[2]

The plot focuses on the abduction of two young girls in Pennsylvania and the subsequent search for the suspected abductor by the police. After police arrest a young suspect and release him, the father of one of the daughters takes matters into his own hands. The film was a financial and critical success, grossing US$122 million worldwide. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2013, and at the 86th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Cinematography.

Plot

In Pennsylvania, carpenter Keller Dover and his family visit their neighbors the Birches for Thanksgiving. That evening, the families' daughters, Anna and Joy, disappear. Detective Loki arrests Alex Jones, a man driving the RV pointed out by Keller's son. Loki then visits Alex's home where he lives with his aunt Holly, after getting no information via interrogation. Loki then later reveals to the Dovers that Alex is intellectually disabled with an IQ of a 10 year old and no physical evidence has been found in the RV or his home.

Loki investigates local sex offender and former priest Patrick Dunn, where he finds a corpse in a hidden cellar. Dunn reveals he killed the man after he confessed to murdering sixteen children. The following day, Alex is released. Convinced of his guilt, Keller assaults Alex outside the police station, during which Alex says "They didn't cry 'til I left them". Based on this, Keller kidnaps and holds Alex captive in his childhood home. Joy's father Franklin reluctantly accompanies Keller in interrogating and torturing Alex over the course of several days; his wife Nancy convinces Franklin to stop, but decides not to turn in Keller.

Loki visits the previous owner of the empty home the RV was seen parked in front of, Mrs. Milland. She tells him that her son Barry was kidnapped 26 years prior and was never found. During a vigil for Anna and Joy, Loki chases and fails to apprehend a hooded figure who then burglarizes the Dover and Birch residences; Keller's wife Grace, who has relapsed into a prescription drug addiction, notices this. Suspicious of Alex's disappearance, Loki follows Keller to the building but leaves when the hooded man, Bob Taylor, is located. Loki detains Taylor and discovers the walls in his home are covered in maze drawings. He stumbles upon several locked crates filled with snakes and bloody clothing. Taylor confesses to the kidnappings and draws mazes in his interrogation room. Frustrated, Loki assaults him, but Taylor gains control of another officer's gun and commits suicide.

The Dover and Birch families identify photos of the bloodied clothing as their children's. Keller visits Holly to apologize for assaulting Alex. He learns she and her late husband adopted Alex after their son died of cancer. Meanwhile, Loki notices a resemblance between one of Taylor's mazes and a necklace belonging to the corpse in Dunn's basement. He is informed that most of the bloody clothes were store-bought and soaked with pig blood. He also finds Taylor's footprints below a window at the Dover house, along with Anna's sock.

Joy is found and reunited with her parents, and is hospitalized; the two children were drugged and staged an escape, but Anna was caught. When Keller asks Joy for information, she remembers little, but says she saw him there. Keller realizes she saw him at Holly's house and flees. Loki travels to Keller's building to find him, but instead finds Alex.

Keller arrives at Holly's and she holds him at gunpoint. She reveals that she and her husband abducted children of Christian families as a "war on God" to avenge their son's death and make similar families feel the same crisis of faith. Alex (Barry Milland) was their first abduction and Taylor their second. Holly drugs Keller and imprisons him in a hidden pit in her yard, where he finds his daughter's emergency whistle. Loki arrives at Holly's house to inform her Alex has been found. Seeing a photo of her late husband with the maze necklace, he realizes that Holly is the kidnapper and searches for her, finding her in process of giving Anna an injection. Loki kills Holly in a shootout, and rushes Anna to the hospital while wounded.

Anna and Joy visit Loki in the hospital to thank him. Grace acknowledges that Keller will be arrested if found, but insists he is a good man. Later, Loki returns to Holly's house, where he faintly hears Keller blowing the whistle.

Cast

Production

Aaron Guzikowski wrote the script based on a short story he wrote, involving "a father whose kid was struck by a hit-and-run driver and then puts this guy in a well in his backyard". That short story was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart".[4]

After he wrote the spec, many actors and directors entered and exited the project, including actors Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio and directors Antoine Fuqua and Bryan Singer.[4]

Ultimately Guzikowski would credit producer Mark Wahlberg for getting the project on its feet, stating, "He was totally pivotal in getting the film made. That endorsement helped it get around."[4] Principal photography began in Georgia in February 2013.[5]

Reception

Box office

Prisoners premiered at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival and was released theatrically in Canada and the United States on September 20, 2013. It was originally rated NC-17 by the MPAA for substantial disturbing violent content and explicit images; after being edited, it was re-rated R for disturbing violent content including torture, and language throughout.[6] Prisoners opened in North America on September 20, 2013, in 3,260 theaters and grossed $20,817,053 in its opening weekend, averaging $6,386 per theater and ranking #1 at the box office. After 77 days in theaters, the film ended up earning $61,002,302 domestically and $61,124,385 internationally, earning a worldwide gross of $122,126,687, above its production budget of $46 million.[2]

Critical response

On review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 253 reviews, with a rating average of 7.30/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Prisoners has an emotional complexity and a sense of dread that makes for absorbing (and disturbing) viewing."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]

Christopher Orr of The Atlantic wrote: "Ethical exploration or exploitation? In the end, I come down reservedly on the former side: the work done here by Jackman, Gyllenhaal, and especially Villeneuve is simply too powerful to ignore."[9] Ed Gibbs of The Sun Herald wrote: "Not since Erskineville Kings, in 1999, has Hugh Jackman appeared so emotionally exposed on screen. It is an exceptional, Oscar-worthy performance."[10] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Gyllenhaal was "exceptional" and that "Villeneuve takes his unflashy time building character and revealing troubled psyches in the most unlikely of places."[11]

The film was a second runner-up for the BlackBerry People's Choice Award at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, behind Philomena and 12 Years a Slave. Gyllenhaal received the Best Supporting Actor of the Year Award at the 2013 Hollywood Film Festival for his "truly compelling, subtly layered" performance as Detective Loki.[12]

Reviews have not been all positive. Writing in The New Republic, David Thomson declared that the film was "weary after ten minutes" and furthermore "hideous, cruel, degrading, depressing, relentless, prolonged, humorless, claustrophobic, and a mockery of any surviving tradition in which films are entertaining".[13] A mixed review came from Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com, who gave the film 2.5 stars out of a possible 4. She wrote that Jackman's performance grew "monotonous" and that the film sometimes verged on pretentiousness, but was redeemed by a few excellent suspense sequences and Gyllenhaal's performance, whose "subtlety is welcome considering all the teeth gnashing going on in other performances".[14]

Audiences

Audiences polled by CinemaScore initially gave the film a grade "B+" on an A+ to F scale, but Warner Bros asked for a recount by the service and later said the film received a grade "A−".[15][16]

Top ten lists

Accolades

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result
Academy Awards	March 2, 2014	Best Cinematography	Roger Deakins	Nominated
American Society of Cinematographers	February 1, 2014	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases		Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association	December 16, 2013	Best Cinematography		Nominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	January 16, 2014	Best Cinematography		Nominated
Empire Awards	March 30, 2014	Best Thriller		Nominated
Hollywood Film Festival[12]	October 21, 2013	Best Supporting Actor	Jake Gyllenhaal	Won
Key Art Awards[19]	October 24, 2013	Best Teaser – Audio/Visual	"Ticking"	Bronze
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards[20]	February 15, 2014	Best Contemporary Make-Up	Donald Mowat and Pamela Westmore	Won
National Board of Review	December 4, 2013	Best Cast	Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano and Dylan Minnette	Won
		Top Ten Films		Won
People's Choice Awards	January 8, 2014	Favorite Dramatic Movie		Nominated
San Diego Film Critics Society	December 11, 2013	Best Cinematography	Roger Deakins	Nominated
		Best Performance by an Ensemble		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Aaron Guzikowski	Nominated
Satellite Awards	February 23, 2014	Best Cinematography	Roger Deakins	Nominated
		Best Editing	Gary D. Roach and Joel Cox	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Jake Gyllenhaal	Nominated
Saturn Awards	June 26, 2014	Best Make-up	Donald Mowat	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Melissa Leo	Nominated
		Best Thriller Film		Nominated
Toronto International Film Festival	September 15, 2013	People's Choice Award	Denis Villeneuve	3rd Place
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	December 9, 2013	Best Ensemble		Nominated

Soundtrack

The Prisoners soundtrack, composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson, was released on September 20, 2013.[21]

See also

• The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), an Argentine-Spanish film which includes a theme of suspect kidnapping.
• Secret in Their Eyes (2015), an American remake of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).

References

External links

• Official website
• Prisoners at IMDb 
• Prisoners at AllMovie
• Prisoners at Box Office Mojo
• Prisoners at Metacritic
• Prisoners at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Prisoners (2013)

Prisoners ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm aus dem Jahr 2013 unter der Regie von Denis Villeneuve. Das Drehbuch schrieb Aaron Guzikowski. Der Psychothriller handelt von der Suche nach zwei entführten jungen Mädchen durch ihre Väter, die dabei auch zu Selbstjustiz greifen, und einen Polizisten. Drehorte für den in Pennsylvania spielenden Film war größtenteils die Stadt Conyers und ihre Umgebung in Georgia. Der deutsche Kinostart war am 10. Oktober 2013.

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- [en] Prisoners (2013 film)

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[ru] Пленницы

«Пле́нницы» (англ. Prisoners) — детективный триллер режиссёра Дени Вильнёва по сценарию Аарона Гузиковского[3]. В главных ролях — Хью Джекман и Джейк Джилленхол. Премьера состоялась на кинофестивале в Теллуриде 30 августа 2013 года. В России фильм вышел в прокат 26 сентября 2013[4].

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