The Next Three Days

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  • Opened November 19, 2010 
  • 2 hr 2 min
  • PG-13 | For violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+. More on child suitability

  • Life for John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks) is miserable after she is convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. Three years later while struggling with the demands of work and raising his son alone, John is still trying to establish her innocence. When her final appeal is rejected, Lara becomes suicidal, forcing John to exercise the only option he has left: Break her out of prison. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde
  • Director: Paul Haggis
  • Genres: Drama

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Damon's how-to-break-the-law lesson - as ludicrous as anything else in this enjoyably zigzaggy exercise in accumulating peril - grants Neeson the fun of experimenting with an American ex-con accent for his one scene. Read full review

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

The plot is worked out with care, and it takes its time, unapologetically, in a manner that's perfectly suited to thinking adults. The whole enterprise reeks of class. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

The Next Three Days is genre fare - no pretensions, no nonsense. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Todd McCarthy

Although involving, this remake of a recent French film never reaches the anticipated heights of excitement and suspense. Read full review

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Elizabeth Banks as Lara Brennan and Russell Crowe as John Brennan in "The Next Three Days."