2010 · romance · drama · thriller
The Next Three Days
Directed by Paul Haggis2h 13m2010
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Our read: The Next Three Days (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded romance · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- twisty
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