Law Abiding Citizen

Jamie Foxx Director: F. Gary Gray F. Gary Gray

Overview

Jamie Foxx stars as an assistant DA who finds himself at the mercy of a spiteful vigilante (Gerard Butler) hell-bent on avenging the death of his wife and daughter, whose murderers are set free due to legal loopholes. F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job) directs from a script by Frank Darabont and Kurt Wimmer.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/16/2010
UPC:	0013138312280
Original Release:	2009
Rating:	R
Source:	Starz / Anchor Bay
Time:	1:49:00
Sales rank:	20,174

Special Features

Disc One: Unrated Director's Cut of Law Abiding Citizen; ; The Justice Of Law Abiding Citizen; Law in Black and White - Behind the Scenes; Preliminary Arguments- The Visual Effects of Law Abiding Citizen; The Verdict - Winning Trailer Mash-Up; Theatrical Trailer; ; Disc Two - Theatrical Cut of Law Abiding Citizen; Audio Commentary Featuring Producers Lucas Fostera and Alan Siegel

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jamie Foxx	Nick Rice
Gerard Butler	Clyde Shelton
Colm Meaney	Detective Dunnigan
Bruce McGill	Jonas Cantrell
Leslie Bibb	Sarah Lowell
Michael Irby	Detective Sean Garza
Gregory Itzin	Warden Iger
Regina Hall	Kelly Rice
Emerald Angel Young	Denise Rice
Christian Stolte	Clarence Darby
Annie Corley	Judge Laura Burch
Richard Portnow	Bill Reynolds
Viola Davis	Mayor April Henry
Michael Kelly	Bray
Josh Stewart	Rupert Ames
Roger Bart	Brian Bringham
Dan Bittner	Sereno
Evan Hart	Collins
Reno Laquintano	Dwight Dixon
Jason Babinsky	Del Frisco Waiter
Richard Barlow	Older Cop
Greg Young	SWAT Captain
Jim Gushue	SWAT Troop #1
Charlie Edward Alston	Inmate
Anthony Lawton	Trunk Cop
Julian Marzal	Sherrif at Shed
David Villalobos	Print Reporter
Ksenia Hulayev	Clyde's Daughter
Brooke Stacy Mills	Clyde's Wife
Todd Lewis	Cop
Bijean Ngo	Marvelle
Cecelia Birt	Nick's Assistant
Lamont Clayton	FBI Agent
Lynn Boianelli	Princess on Air Mattress
Dave Huddleston	Newscaster at Execution
Gabra Zackman	Another Reporter
Brian Anthony Wilson	Homeland Security Supervisor
Stephanie Humphrey	Local Newscaster #1
Tracy Toth	Local Newscaster #2
Patrick F. McDade	Charlie - City Hall Security
Jim Fitzpatrick	Messenger
Lawrence Laravela	Bailiff #1
Barbara Lambert	Bailiff #2
Timothy Whiteside	Prison Guard
Nakia Dillard	City Hall Sheriff

Technical Credits

Kurt Wimmer

F. Gary Gray	Director
Tariq Anwar	Editor
Deanna Brigidi-Stewart	Casting
Gerard Butler	Producer
Lucas Foster	Producer
Dave Gare	Associate Producer
Mark Gill	Producer
Michael Goguen	Executive Producer
Alex Hajdu	Production Designer
Robert Katz	Producer
Jeffrey Kurland	Costumes/Costume Designer
Bruce Litecky	Sound Mixer
Joseph Middleton	Casting
Darrell Pritchett	Special Effects Supervisor
Alan Rankin	Sound/Sound Designer
Jesse Rosenthal	Art Director
Neil Sacker	Executive Producer
Jonathan Sela	Cinematographer
Allan Siegel	Producer
Brian Tyler	Score Composer
Gregory Veeser	Associate Producer
Ian Watermeier	Co-producer
Jeff G. Waxman	Co-producer
Kurt Wimmer	Producer,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A highly implausible and surprisingly lurid revenge flick where lawyers and judges stand in for street-dwelling scumbags, Law Abiding Citizen blasts out of the barrel with an unsettlingly intimate act of violence and doesn't pull any punches in detailing one man's war against a corrupt justice system. And while director F. Gary Gray and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer's tense tale of vengeance and grief delivers some nasty surprises that send it careening dangerously close to Saw territory (especially early on), it does manage to raise some thought-provoking questions regarding the ethics of the swaggering legal eagles whose actions sometimes prove more self-serving than benevolent. Ten years ago, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) watched helplessly as two violent home invaders murdered his wife and daughter. Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) and Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart) should have been put away for life, but when Clarence cut a deal with rising prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) to get a death sentence for Rupert, the system showed its flaws. When Clarence gets out of prison, Clyde delivers the kind of justice that Rice couldn't -- or, more accurately, wouldn't -- for fear of putting his high conviction rate in jeopardy. It seems like an open-and-shut case, but what Rice and his team don't realize is that they're not dealing with your typical vigilante. Clyde is determined to bring down the corrupt system by whatever means necessary, and he's more than capable of doing so. When Rice and his team get Clyde thrown in prison and the killings continue uninterrupted, they must race to piece together the puzzle and identify his accomplice on the outside before everyone who was involved in the case dies. What they all fail to realize, however, is that Clyde Shelton is a born tactician, and every move he makes has been meticulously planned -- including going to prison. Unlike most "revenge" films, Law Abiding Citizen is more concerned with detailing the many ways the justice system can fail rather than affording us the visceral release of watching a grieving family man track down the baddies who've done him wrong to give them the Death Wish treatment. In choosing this approach, the filmmakers keep us somewhat at arm's length emotionally, though by focusing on the mystery of how Clyde accomplishes his impossible mission, they give us plenty of motivation to stay involved with the story. There's no doubt some viewers may be turned off by the ferocity of the front-loaded tragedy and the sadistic nature of Clyde's revenge on Clarence, but Butler's compulsively watchable performance does help to take the nasty edge off of the action, and keeps the character somewhat sympathetic even when he's seemingly drifted so far off the deep end that his methods appear to overshadow his motivations. Still, there's little denying that the final revelation is laughably ludicrous, and ultimately raises more questions than it answers. For that reason and others, demanding thriller fans may resent Law Abiding Citizen as a distasteful insult to their intelligence. Folks in search of a punchy revenge yarn that breaks the mold, on the other hand, will find more than enough shocks and surprises to keep them guessing right up until they realize they've just been hoodwinked by a flick that's essentially popcorn pulp done up in courtroom attire.

All Movie Guide - Jason Buchanan