Heaven's Prisoners | |
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Directed by | Phil Joanou |
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Based on | Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke |
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Cinematography | Harris Savides |
Edited by | William Steinkamp |
Music by | George Fenton |
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Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.