Product Details

• Actors: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Carlin Glynn
• Directors: Peter Masterson
• Writers: Horton Foote
• Producers: David Anderson, Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt, John Foster, Jonathan D. Krane, Leah Holmes
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: April 12, 2005
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00079ZA1I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,007 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Convicts" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

OscarÂ(r) winner* Robert Duvall "is terrific" (The New York Times) in this "vividly realized" (Variety) drama co-starring Lucas Haas (Witness) and James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams). "Gracefully adapted to the screen" (Los Angeles Times) by Horton Foote (Of Mice and Men) and ably directed by Peter Masterson (Blood Red), this riveting tale of an unlikely bond is "a tasty feast" (LA Weekly)! In rural Texas 1902, 13-year-old Horace (Haas) toils on a run-down plantation to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll (Duvall), the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation, has yet to pay the boy a pennyof the money he owes him. But on Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, hemakes a grand promise forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society. *1983: Actor, Tender Mercies

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Convicts is a great movie, November 8, 2005

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D. Smith (South Dakota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Convicts (DVD)

I bought this movie because I'm a Duvall fan. He is, in my mind, the American Olivier. I watched the movie once and turned around and watched it again, immediately. The setting, the interactions between Duvall's character (Old Soll) and those around him is an amazing window into a past era. Convicts has elements of being almost a stage playj. Convicts is a gem and another feather in the cap of our likely greastest living American actor.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great film, great acting... a real "moment in time.", March 8, 2003

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Catherine S. Todd (Oxford NC) - See all my reviews
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Robert Duvall is a direct descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, according the IMDb.com movie database. After seeing this film, you may think Duvall's appearance is reincarnation at it's best.

One of my most favorite films. I wish the composer, Peter Rodgers Melnick had a CD or there was a soundtrack available. Wonderful scenery and music and "all too-true-to-life," especially for those of us that live in, or have moved to, the South. This is a "real moment in time." Life moves on, slowly, but "strangers we do not remain."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all time favorites, August 21, 2007

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M. C. ELLIOTT "history hawk" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Convicts (DVD)

I saw this in the theaters and it just blew me away. Anything written by Horton Foote has incredible human intergrity (such as Tender Mercies or To Kill A Mockingbird, which he wrote the script for). This is not for folks with no attention span who require an explosion every few minutes. Just thoughtful, offbeat human drama. Simple and profound. Just a thing of beauty. He also wrote Habitation of Dragons and Alone, two fine pieces of work for those who appreciate rare human drama with intelligence and soul.