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Escape at Dannemora( 2018)

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Overview

The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.

  1. Michael Tolkin

    Creator

  2. Brett Johnson

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Benicio del Toro

    Richard Matt

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    Paul Dano

    David Sweat

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    Patricia Arquette

    Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell

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    David Morse

    Gene Palmer

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    Eric Lange

    Lyle Mitchell

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    Bonnie Hunt

    Catherine Scott

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    Gregory Dann

    Corrections Officer Boyd

Current Season

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Limited Series

2018 | 7 Episodes

Limited Series of Escape at Dannemora premiered on Nov 18 2018

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Review 1Discussion

A review by Stephen Campbell

7
Written by Stephen Campbell on Fri Aug 30 2019
**_Overlong, but the acting is immense_** > _You can never have enough security with Richard Matt. You can never trust him. You can never turn your back on him. He is the most vicious, evil person I've ever come across in 38 years as a police officer._ - Cpt. Gabriel DiBernardo, North Tonawanda Police Department (Ret.), speaking the day after Richard Matt and David Sweat had escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility; "A Convicted Murderer's Escape Alarms Investigators From His Past" (Rick Rojas); _New York Times_ (June 7, 2015) > _I don't want nothing to do with him. He has tormented_...

Media

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Facts

Status

Ended

Status

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • love triangle
  • prison cell
  • based on true story
  • prison guard
  • prison escape
  • prison life