Attica

Attica

🎞️ Movie 97 min US
โ˜… 6.4 /10 1980

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A TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions took 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin immediately, only to continually break down thanks to uncompromising stubbornness on both sides. Four days into the crisis, the rebellion ends in a bloodbath, with state troopers firing on the prisoners, killing several of the guards in the process. Based on the eyewitness reporting of the New York Times' Tom Wicker, who was one of the civilian negotiators during the stalemate.

Cast

Henry Darrow
Henry Darrow
Herman Badillo
Charles Durning
Charles Durning
Commissioner Russell Oswald
Joel Fabiani
Joel Fabiani
Senator Gordon Conners
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Hap Richards
George Grizzard
George Grizzard
Tom Wicker
David Harris
David Harris
T. J.
Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley
Frank Green
Arlen Dean Snyder
Arlen Dean Snyder
Superintendant Vince Mancusi
Glynn Turman
Glynn Turman
Raymond Franklin
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe
William Kunstler
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Gil Mellé
Composer
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Donald H. Birnkrant
Cinematographer