Knockback: 1 (1985)
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
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Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama