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Heaven's Prisoners (1996)

★ 5.8R126 min

1996 film by Phil Joanou

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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Heaven's Prisoners about?
Heaven's Prisoners (1996) — Ex-detective Dave Robicheaux has made a new life for himself and his wife Annie running a bait shop in the outskirts of New Orleans. When they save a little girl, the sole survivor of a plane crash, their lives become forever changed. They take the orphan child into their home an
Is Heaven's Prisoners based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Heaven's Prisoners scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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