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Title: Felon
Release Date: 08/12/2008
Label/Distributor: Sony
Rating: R (Restricted)
Prebook DVD: 07/10/2008
Retail Price: $24.96
Genre: Action & Adventure Cast: Anne Archer,Nick Chinlund,Stephen Dorff,Val Kilmer,Sam Shepard
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Running Time: 104
DVD Video Options: AC-3,Color,Dolby,Dubbed,DVD-Video,Subtitled,Widescreen,NTSC
DVD Audio Options: English;Subtitled,French;Subtitled,English;Original Language,French;Dubbed
DVD Extras: featurette
UPC Code: 043396261761

Felon

By Irv Slifkin -- Video Business, 7/7/2008

SONY
Street: Aug. 12
Prebook: July 10
> Well-cast, in-your-face prison drama scores on all counts.

A production from Sony’s new low-budget DVD premiere line, Stage 6 Films, Felon makes an impact in all departments as a no-holds-barred prison drama. Stephen Dorff gets a rare chance to play the good guy here, Wade Porter, a man who is put behind bars in a brutal prison after he accidentally kills a burglar. He gets a quick education about the politics, racism and corruption that comes with prison life thanks to his cellmate, a meditative murderer (an unrecognizable Val Kilmer). Writer/director Ric Roman Waugh, a former leading stunt coordinator, impresses with his accomplished cinema verite style, electrifying fight sequences and sharp scripting. The top-notch cast also includes Sam Shepard, Harold Perrineau and Marisol Nichols (TV’s 24) as Wade’s wife, who is going through her own hell while he’s in prison.

Shelf Talk: You can’t get more male-oriented than Felon, and Sony is targeting men with Internet coverage on such Web sites as IGN and UGO, in addition to print ads in Maxim, Playboy and other men’s magazines. The cast and premise—similar to Tom Selleck’s An Innocent Man—are the key selling points.

Drama, color, R (mature themes, language, extreme violence, nudity), 104 min., DVD $24.96, BD $38.96
Extras: featurette
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
First Run: DVD premiere

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