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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

★ 7.0 · 1,563 ratings on TMDB
Brawl in Cell Block 99 poster★ 7.0

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

DirectorS. Craig Zahler
CastDion Mucciacito, Don Johnson, Fred Melamed, Geno Segers, Jennifer Carpenter, Marc Blucas
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Brawl in Cell Block 99 keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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