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Midnight Express
Crime, Drama
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who can handle punishing prison drama centered on psychological endurance, institutional cruelty, and desperate hopes of escape.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, tense
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- imprisonment, injustice, survival, escape, institutional brutality
- Setting
- 1970s, oppressive foreign prison and legal system
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