Convicts
MGM / UA (1991)
Drama
In Collection
#3037
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Seen ItYes
027616921840
IMDB   6.0
1 hr 33 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Robert Duvall Soll
James Earl Jones Ben
Lukas Haas Horace
Starletta DuPois Martha
Carlin Glynn Asa
Calvin Levels Leroy
Gary Swanson Billy
Mel Winkler Jackson
Lance E. Nichols Sherman Edwards
Bob Edmundson Overseer
Robert Duvall James Earl Jones
Millard Mitchell James T. Connie
Gilbert Roland Punch Pinero
John Beal Dr. Wilson aka Doc
Marshall Thompson Blivens Scott
Director
Peter Masterson
Producer Jonathan D. Krane
Sterling VanWagenen
David Anderson
Sterling Van Wagenen
Writer Horton Foote
Cinematography Toyomichi Kurita
Musician Peter Rodgers Melnick

Freedom Has Its Price.

Oscar® winner Robert Duvall (1983, Tender Mercies) "is terrific" (The New York Times) in this "vividly realized" (Variety) drama co-starring Lukas Haas (Witness) and James Earl Jones (Field Of Dreams). "Gracefully adapted to the screen" (Los Angeles Times) by Horton Foote (Of Mice And Men) and ably directed by Peter Masterson (Blood Red), Convicts is at once engrossing, poignant and heartrending.

In 1902 rural Texas, 13-year-old Horace (Haas) toils on a run-down plantation to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll (Duvall), the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation, has yet to pay the boy a penny of the money he owes him. But on Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise...forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.

Edition Details
Distributor MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date 4/12/2005
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Layers Dual Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1