Last Rampage

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Last Rampage
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Directed by Dwight Little
Screenplay byÁlvaro Rodríguez
Jason Rosenblatt
Based onLast Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison
by James W. Clarke
Produced byEric M. Breiman
Robert Patrick
StarringRobert Patrick
Heather Graham
Bruce Davison
Alex MacNicoll
Molly C. Quinn
Chris Browning
Casey Thomas Brown
Skyy Moore
Jason Richter
William Shockley
John Heard
CinematographyRafael Leyva
Edited byBill Lynch
Music by Tobias Enhus
Richard Patrick
Production
companies
Rampage Films
Vangard Productions
Distributed by Epic Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22)(USA)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million
Box office$6,294 [1]

Last Rampage is a 2017 American crime drama film directed by Dwight Little. The screenplay by Alvaro Rodriguez and Jason Rosenblatt is based on the non-fiction book Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison by University of Arizona Political Science Professor James W. Clarke, and details the true story of Tison's 1978 prison escape and subsequent murders. [2] The film stars Robert Patrick (who also produced the film) as Tison, Heather Graham as his wife Dorothy, and Chris Browning as his accomplice Randy Greenawalt. Bruce Davison plays a fictional law enforcement official pursuing Tison (a composite of several real-world individuals), and Alex MacNicoll, Skyy Moore, and Casey Thomas Brown portray Tison's three sons.

Contents

The events were previously depicted in A Killer in the Family , starring Robert Mitchum as Gary Tison, with James Spader, Eric Stoltz and Lance Kerwin as his sons.

Synopsis

The film tells the true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, AZ in the summer of 1978.

Cast

Reception

L.A. Times reviewer Michael Rechtshaffen called Robert Patrick "brutally effective" in a positive review of the film. [3]

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References

  1. "Last Rampage Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  2. Kenigsberg, Ben (8 September 2017). "Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule" . Retrieved 2 October 2017 via www.nytimes.com.
  3. "Robert Patrick brings grit to crime drama 'Last Rampage'". 21 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017 via LA Times.