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Heaven received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 73% approval rating, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The story is the weakest link in this gorgeous and well-acted film."
The film is set in rural Mississippi in 1937, and it follows three escaped convicts searching for hidden treasure while a sheriff relentlessly pursues them. Its story is a modern satire which, while incorporating social features of the American South , is loosely based on Homer 's epic Greek poem The Odyssey . [ 10 ]
Along with bushrangers and other stock characters of colonial life, convicts were a popular subject during Australia's silent film era. The first convict film was a 1908 adaptation of Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, shot on location at Port Arthur with an unheard-of budget of £7000. [35]
Convicts is a 1991 film directed by Peter Masterson. It stars Robert Duvall and Lukas Haas . It is based on the Horton Foote 1977 play Convicts which is part of The Orphans' Home Cycle .
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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.
The film score was composed by composer Paul Cantelon. The end title song is "Heaven & Hell" by Cantelon's band, Wild Colonials. The song is a re-recording of the track that first appeared on their debut album, Fruit of Life and was released as a stand-alone single at the time of the film's release.
Convicts 4, also known as Reprieve, is a 1962 American neo noir crime film starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve .