Rating: R
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 10/07/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0/DTS
Run Time: 133 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video

An ex-cop trying to stay away from trouble finds it literally crashing into his backyard in this crime thriller. Dave Robicheaux (Alec Baldwin) is a former New Orleans police detective who, after kicking an addiction to alcohol and confronting some serious problems with his partners, has left law enforcement behind to run a bait shop in a small Louisiana bayou town. One day, Dave and his wife Annie (Kelly Lynch) see a small plane plummet from the sky and crash into the swamp; the pilot dies, but Dave is able to rescue a young Hispanic girl from the wreckage. Dave and Annie take the child in, but as they try to find out more about the plane crash and who the little girl might be, they discover that she's actually an illegal alien from Salvador and that the pilot was involved with a local drug ring. Dave, constitutionally unable to let a mystery go unsolved, begins asking enough questions and making enough trouble that he finds himself on the bad side of his old High School friend Bubba Rocque (Eric Roberts). Bubba is a local crime boss who controls the area's drug traffic, keeps a boxing ring in his front yard, and has a wife Claudette (Teri Hatcher) who enjoys greeting her guests naked. Dave's inquiries eventually become too much for Bubba and his henchmen, and in the midst of a violent raid on their home, Annie is killed. Dave becomes obsessed with bringing Bubba and his men to justice and gets some unexpected help from Robin Gaddis (Mary Stuart Masterson), an exotic dancer with a heart of gold. While it was originally scheduled for release in 1994, Heaven's Prisoners didn't arrive on theater screens until two years later, by which time Teri Hatcher had risen to stardom on the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux
Kelly Lynch - Annie Robicheaux
Mary Stuart Masterson - Robin Gaddis
Eric Roberts - Bubba Rocque
Teri Hatcher - Claudette Rocque
Vondie Curtis-Hall - Minos P. Dautrieve

Production:
Phil Joanou - Director
Leslie Greif Andre Morgan Albert S. Ruddy - Producer
George Fenton - Composer
William Steinkamp - Editor
Scott Frank Harley Peyton - Screen Writer
Dorree Cooper - Set Designer
Monroe Kelly - Art Director
Michael Alan Kahn - Associate Producer
Linda Phillips-Palo - Casting
Harris Savides - Cinematographer
Aude Bronson-Howard - Costume Designer
Peter Afterman - Executive Music Producer
Alec Baldwin - Executive Producer
Gray Fredrickson - Executive Producer
Hildy Gottlieb - Executive Producer
J. Stephan Buck - First Assistant Director
Michael Alan Kahn - First Assistant Director
Robin Harlan - Foley Walker
Robert "Bobby Z" Zajonc - Pilot
John Stoddart - Production Designer
George Fenton - Songwriter
Kim Ornitz - Sound/Sound Designer
Dennis Dion - Special Effects
Pete Antico - Stunts
Sarah Hammond - Foley Walker

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