Brubaker has something to do with prison.
Brubaker . It stars Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker , who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system . The screenplay by W.D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book , Accomplices to the Crime : The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams , detailing Murton 's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal . A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape . These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons , such as Cool Hand Luke , Midnight Express , Brubaker , Escape from Alcatraz , The Shawshank Redemption , and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed , and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy , Life , and Let 's Go To Prison .