Prisoners

About Prisoners

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners is a 2013 crime thriller film. Hugh Jackman appears as Keller Dover, Jake Gyllenhaal as Detective Loki, Viola Davis as Nancy Birch, and Maria Bello as Grace Dover.

It runs 153 minutes and was released in September 2013. Written by Aaron Guzikowski. It was produced by Alcon Entertainment.

Shelv files it under baffled, brutality, vigilante, and father. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 13,723 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

The Silence of the Lambs, Memories of Murder, and Dirty Harry make useful companions to Prisoners, all filed under kidnapping and neo-noir.