Heaven's Prisoners
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| Directed by | Phil Joanou |
| Produced by | Leslie Greif Andre Morgan Albert S. Ruddy |
| Screenplay by |
Harley Peyton Scott Frank |
| Based on |
Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke |
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| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Harris Savides |
| Edited by | William Steinkamp |
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| Distributed by | New Line Cinema (US) Rank Film Distributors (UK) |
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132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25,000,000 |
| Box office | $5,009,305 |
Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 American crime drama 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.
The film was followed by In the Electric Mist (2009), starring Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Robicheaux. In the sequel, Robicheaux still lives in Louisiana and has come out of retirement as an Iberia Parish sheriff's detective.
A former police detective in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux, is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug smuggler's plane crashes in a lake, right before their eyes.
Robicheaux succeeds in rescuing a lone survivor, a Salvadoran girl, whom he and Annie quickly adopt and name Alafair. With the arrival of a DEA officer named Dautrieve and an inherent connection to Bubba Rocque, the leading drug kingpin in the area and Robicheaux's childhood friend from New Iberia, Dave becomes involved in solving the case and consequently finds himself and his family in danger.
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