Law Abiding Citizen (2009)


Jamie Foxx              Nick Rice
Gerard Butler           Clyde Shelton
Colm Meaney             Detective Dunnigan
Bruce McGill            Jonas Cantrell
Leslie Bibb             Sarah Lowell
Michael Irby            Detective Garza
Gregory Itzin           Warden Iger
Regina Hall             Kelly Rice
Christian Stolte        Clarence Darby
Annie Corley            Judge Laura Burch
Richard Portnow         Bill Reynolds
Viola Davis             Mayor
Michael Kelly           Bray
Josh Stewart            Rupert Ames
Roger Bart              Brian Bringham
Evan Hart               Collins

Directed by:            F. Gary Gray
Produced by:            Neil Sacker, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel


Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. 
When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, 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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A brilliant man orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia - all from inside 
his jail cell. The prosecutor assigned to his case realizes he is the only one who can end the reign of terror.  

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The plot focuses on a man who, ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, returns to extract 
justice from the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case against their killers. His vengeance threatens 
not only the man who allowed mercy to supersede justice, but also the system and the city that made it so.