The Escapist

The Escapist (2008) is a British-Irish prison thriller directed by Rupert Wyatt — watch online on iFILM. Brian Cox plays Frank Perry, a man twelve years into a life sentence who learns his estranged daughter is dying and decides, for the first time, that the walls cannot hold him.

Frank pulls together five inmates — Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge — each with his own reason to run and almost no reason to trust the others. Wyatt cuts between the escape plan and its consequences in parallel, tightening the tension until the final cost becomes clear. Stream The Escapist (2008) in good quality on iFILM.