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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 .
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.
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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 .