
Heaven(2002)
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.


“Justice at any cost.”
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Jamie Foxx
Nick Rice

Gerard Butler
Clyde Alexander Shelton

Colm Meaney
Detective Dunnigan

Bruce McGill
Jonas Cantrell

Leslie Bibb
Sarah Lowell

Michael Irby
Detective Garza

Gregory Itzin
Warden Iger

Regina Hall
Kelly Rice

Emerald-Angel Young
Denise Rice

Brooke Stacy Mills
Clyde's Wife
Law Abiding Citizen is a drama, crime, thriller film released in 2009 exploring themes of prison, assassin, philadelphia, pennsylvania, bomb, secret passage, deal. Directed by F. Gary Gray, it stars Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney. A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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