Heaven's Prisoners

Heaven's Prisoners
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPhil Joanou
Screenplay by
Based onHeaven's Prisoners
by James Lee Burke
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHarris Savides
Edited byWilliam Steinkamp
Music byGeorge Fenton
Production
company
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • May 17, 1996 (1996-05-17)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[1]
Box office$5,009,305[2]

Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 American dramatic crime 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.

  1. ^ "Box office / business for Heaven's Prisoners (1996)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  2. ^ "Heaven's Prisoners (1996)". Box Office Mojo. 1996-06-08. Retrieved 2011-06-11.