Heaven's Prisoners (1996)

Directed by

Phil Joanou

Genre

drama film, film noir, erotic film, crime film, mystery film, erotic thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

R

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 87 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ex-cop in Louisiana runs a bait shop and tries to live quietly. After a plane crash, he gets pulled into a violent world of crime and secrets.

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What happens

Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 American crime thriller film directed by Phil Joanou and starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts. It is based on a Dave Robicheaux homonymous novel by James Lee Burke. Harley Peyton and Scott Frank wrote the screenplay. It was released on May 17, 1996 by New Line Cinema. The film was followed by In the Electric Mist (2009), starring Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Robicheaux. In the sequel, Robicheaux still lives in Louisiana and has come out of retirement as an Iberia Parish sheriff's detective. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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