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The tale recounts the escapades of three escaped convicts on a mission to return to their home and retrieve a buried treasure.

Based on the Joyce Maynard novel of the same name, the film takes place over the course of a Labor Day weekend and tells the story of a 13 - year - old boy who convinces his reclusive mother to take in a drifter, who turns out to be an escaped convict on the run.

There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest.

Not exact matches

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

After landing, the convicts continued their escape on motorcycles.

Ben Stiller will direct a Showtime miniseries titled «Escape at Dannemora,» based on the real - life prison escape by convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional FacEscape at Dannemora,» based on the real - life prison escape by convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facescape by convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility.

Actor Ben Stiller and his crew are still on site upstate, preparing to film scenes for his upcoming Showtime series, «Escape at Dannemora,» based on the true story of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaping from Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015.

The surviving convict who escaped from the Clinton Correctional facility last June will not face charges in Franklin County for crimes he committed there while on the lam.

Captured convict David Sweat made his first court appearance today on charges related to his escape from Clinton Correctional Facility earlier this summer.

PLATTSBURGH — The prison employee who helped two convicted murderers in their daring escape from a maximum security prison in June was sentenced to 2 1/3 to seven years in prison on Monday.

In any decent society where some premium is placed on human dignity, the accepted jurisprudential position is that, it is better for many suspects to escape unpunished than for one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

PLATTSBURGH — Captured convict David Sweat made his first court appearance today on charges related to his escape from Clinton Correctional Facility earlier this summer.

Eighteen of the 20 uniformed and civilian employees whose laziness, incompetence and dereliction who were cited in the state IG's report for enabling two convicted killers to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility last summer are still on the job and won't be criminally prosecuted.

But he is banking on the convicts lacking Roger Moore's crocodile - running skills showcased in Bond movie «Live and Let Die» when he escapes from an island using the reptiles as stepping stones.

It will be based on the real - life prison escape by convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.

On June 6, 2015 two convicted murderers escaped from the maximum security prison at Dannemora.

The two — Prince Osei and Atta Kwadwo — were convicted on their own plea after they pleaded guilty to Count 3 and 4 of conspiracy to commit crime to escape from lawful custody.

«I understand concerns about families, but those on the public payroll should be held accountable,» Gallivan said, pointing to former prison worker Joyce Mitchell — who is serving up to seven years for helping two convicted murderers escape last year — as an example.

On June 6th, two convicted killers escaped from the maximum security prison at Dannemora.

This ended during Hurricane Sandy in the autumn of 2012, and Cuomo's since made the rounds on national programs during events like the June escape of two convicts from Clinton Correctional Facility and the September papal visit.

New York State Police say a worker at an upstate New York maximum - security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape.

A convicted killer who escaped from a maximum - security prison and spent more than three weeks on the run was arraigned Thursday on criminal charges stemming from the daring breakout.

Law enforcement officers investigating the escape of two convicted murderers from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, are focusing on the manhunt for the pair and looking for potential accomplices.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who visited the prison and viewed the escape route the day the two convicts vanished, had called it a crisis situation for the state with dangerous men on the loose.

By now they have recruited a black partner, Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King), and later when the song becomes a hit, they're called on to perform before an audience that is hostile to blacks in particular and escaped convicts in general.

On a back - to - school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict.

On the way, he finds himself in one oddball encounter after another, from posing as an escaped convict's alibi girlfriend to dancing his way out of a biker brawl in a bar to riding in a big - rig with cackling Large

Jason Reitman slowed down and took on a small canvas story with Labor Day, in which fundamentally decent escaped convict Josh Brolin bonds with depressed single mother Kate Winslet and her impressionable 13 - year - old son after coercing his way into their home.

After several successful years appearing in various television («Fame,» «Hill Street Blues») and film («King of the Mountain,» «The Lightship») William Forsythe made an impact on filmgoers everywhere as escaped convict Evelle Snoats in the Coen Brothers comedy «Raising Arizona.»

Based on Victor Hugo's iconic literary classic, the story centers on French convict Jean Valjean (West) and his struggles to escape his past while being hunted for years over a parole violation by Inspector Javert (Oyelowo), set against the backdrop of the uprising of 1832.

Director: David Twohy Cast: Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David Plot: A transport ship crashes on a deserted planet, allowing dangerous convict, Riddick (Diesel) to escape.

«Les Miserables» Synopsis: The big screen version of the hit stage musical, following an escaped convict unable to escape his past as France simmers on the edge of revolution.

Nick Nolte, as hard - bitten detective Jack Cates, sees two of his colleagues shot down in cold blood by escaped convict Ganz (James Remar), before setting about catching this gruff - voiced baddie on his own.

On a back - to - school shopping trip, a reclusive single mother and her 13 - year - old son encounter and take in a man in need, who turns out to be an escaped convict but also bonds with them both.

Also interwoven with that is an emphasis on human survivors and factions — there are groups of escaped convicts, scavengers and more, and they'll be a bit tougher to deal with this time around.

Grim and hopelessly despondent, but superbly acted and strangely effective as crime on the screen goes, Last Rampage is a gritty file on the infamous and highly publicized prison escape of convicted lifer Gary Tison in 1978.

Stranded on an unforgiving planet and left for dead, an escaped convict wanted throughout the galaxy is forced to activate an emergency beacon knowing full well it will draw bounty hunters and mercenaries to collect his head.

Costner plays an escaped convict who kidnaps a little kid and takes him on the run with him.

On its own, Labor Day (a disastrously campy escaped - convict - meets - repressed - housewife yarn) could simply be dismissed as a blip.

A mythic melange of The Odyssey, Southern folklore, the Great Depression, and your standard road movie, the film follows a trio of escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) who embark on a journey across 1937 Mississippi to find treasure and bring Clooney back to his lady love (Holly Hunter).

Based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, «Labor Day» tracks the tale of single mom Adele (Winslet) and her son Henry, who unwittingly take in an escaped convict (Brolin) as the police scour the town for him.

Based on a novel by F. L. Green, this stark psychological thriller stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a recently escaped convict who plots a robbery to fund a clandestine rebel organization.

George Clooney comes on like a goofball Clark Gable as the fast - talking but slow - witted convict Everett, a greasy con - man who escapes from a chain gang, dragging along a couple of dim bulbs (a tetchy John Turturro and a sweetly stupid Tim Blake Nelson, both of whom spend much of the film with mouths agape and eyes glazed over).

NO GOOD DEED If you're an affluent suburban housewife (Taraji P. Henson), should you offer assistance when an escaped convict shows up on your doorstep?

School officials in Fairfax County, Va., have changed their procedures for running criminal - record checks on substitute teachers after discovering that a convicted killer who had escaped from prison had been working in the school system for almost two months.

Four seemingly unrelated stories merge into one surrealistic tale about a boy sitting on a train, parents acting silly, a convict's escape, and a tardy commuter train.

A deputy sheriff on the Texas - Mexico border gets more than she bargained for when she pursues three escaped convicts into the high desert — just one of the four horror novellas in this collection by screenwriter and graphic novelist Wheaton.

Four Nails in the Coffin by Mark Wheaton A deputy sheriff on the Texas - Mexico border gets more than she bargained for when she pursues three escaped convicts into the high desert — just one of the four horror novellas in this collection by screenwriter and graphic novelist Wheaton.

you'll never know if the baba you meet on the ghats of Varanasi is a genuine one or just a potential convict trying to escape the clutches of laws by masquerading as a saint.

A Way Out Release: March 23 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Directed by Josef Fares — whose previous work includes Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons — A Way Out follows the adventure of two convicts who escape from prison and remain on the lam.