FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN: Paul Haggis On ‘The Next Three Days’

The Next Three Days is a departure for Paul Haggis. The Oscars® for his movies left him well-ensconced as a writer of intelligent dramas, Three years later, with overwhelming evidence against Lara and all appeals exhausted, he begins to explore the idea of breaking her out of prison. The planning becomes an obsession that puts him in personal danger and leads him to acts of desperation and violence that would once have been unthinkable for him— and are usually unthinkable for a movie hero.

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