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Cool Hand Luke

PG
Movie
1967
2h 7m
English
Crime, Drama
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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8.1
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Cool Hand Luke (1967) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
96

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Directed By: Stuart Rosenberg
Written By: Frank Pierson (Screenplay), Donn Pearce (Novel), + 1 more

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nmahoney416 says...
6 years ago
Paul Newman is great. I really felt his pain when eating all those eggs. The movie is a little too long though, it dragged at times.
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jekyl6669 says...
7 years ago
Classic prison drama. Paul Newman is just soo damn cool. The comradery between these guys is just soo entertaining.
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getsmartt says...
7 years ago
An absolute classic, they just don't make movies like this anymore.
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dgw says...
8 years ago
I can see why this is a classic. It's not really a story line I care for, but to hell with that; I ain't marking the score down because I didn't like the plot. I'm rating the film based on production quality and so on. It's got quality in spades.
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Jordyep
8/10  9 months ago
One of those character studies that’s still a pretty great watch, even though it probably doesn’t pack as much punch as it did in the 60s. I love how you can feel the emerging New Hollywood/punk spirit in this. It’s not the most bold or forward thinking conceptually but what it captures feels More
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drqshadow
8/10  2 years ago
A listless former soldier gets himself arrested on a triviality, then shipped off to serve two years of hard labor on a sweaty deep south chain gang. There, he establishes a strong reputation with the inmates and tests his limits with the guards before tiring of the tough conditions and attempting e More
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LarZieJ
9/10  6 years ago
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate."

Paul Newman and George Kennedy both suck you right into this one. Two amazing performances! Anyway Cool Hand Luke has some scenes I won't forget any time soon. Like the egg eating scene, Luke who keeps getting up and never stops, More
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John Chard
6 years ago
Oh Luke you wild beautiful thing!

Luke (Paul Newman) lands himself in a Deep South prison farm for drunkenly cutting the heads off of parking meters. Once at the farm Luke refuses to be ground down by the system and its grinning warden (a brilliant Strother Martin). As things role by Luke becomes More
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