Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

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Starring

• Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton
• Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice
• Viola Davis as Mayor of Philadelphia
• Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell
• Michael Irby
• Regina Hall as Kelly Rice
• Bruce McGill
• Theresa Randle
• Colm Meaney

Movie Story

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

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Reader's Reviews

very excited to see another gb film and glad gerry now has his own production co--congradulations gerard!!!!

posted by ann petersen on May 17, 2008

I haven't seen it yet but i like gerard butler so i imagine it will be good.

posted by Nunya Bisnes on Nov 02, 2008

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posted by Zrslfzpf on Jul 14, 2009

I want to say - thank you for this!

posted by adipex wikipedia on Jul 30, 2009

Is very very good

posted by Hacker Angel on Oct 14, 2009

first time, in a long time, I enjoyed a movie from beginning to end. can't stop telling people to go see it!

posted by runningfuss on Nov 02, 2009