Felon
Movie2008·US·1h 44min

Felon

No rule. No hope. No way out.

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17
Jul2008
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Budget$3M
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Felon (2008) is a hard-edged prison drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. Wade Porter has a family, a small business and a future. Then an intruder breaks in one night, Wade swings, and a single blow erases all of it.

A manslaughter charge lands him three years in a maximum-security yard where the outside rules stop applying. The block runs on a quiet horror: guards stage underground fights between inmates and bet on the outcome, and your survival depends on who you stand next to. Wade's cellmate is John Smith, a calm lifer played by Val Kilmer who lays out how this place actually works. Director Ric Roman Waugh wrote the script from real accounts inside the California system.

The film isn't really about the brawls. It's about how a mild man slowly stops being mild, and Dorff plays that shift with barely a word. Kilmer's jailhouse philosopher is the best thing in it. A bleak, unsentimental pick for anyone who wants their crime stories without a tidy ending. Stream Felon (2008) online on iFILM.

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