Felon is a 2008 drama film about a family man who ends up in state prison after he kills an intruder. The film was written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, and Harold Perrineau. The story is based on events that took place in the 1990s at the notorious California State Prison, Corcoran.
Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) is a loving family man, owns a business, and is a few months away from marrying his girlfriend. However, one night a burglar enters his home. Wade, pursuing the burglar, follows him out onto the front lawn and subsequently strikes the burglar across the head with a baseball bat, killing him. The courts, while sympathetic to Wade's case, are nevertheless compelled by the evidence to reject his plea of self-defence and convict him of manslaughter. Wade's subsequent incarceration forces him into a world unlike any he had known before. First the crowded confines of the county jail, and then 'The SHU', the high security unit of Pelican Bay State Prison. The SHU is 'hard time'—23 hours a day in a concrete box, shackles, orders, and no warnings. The only freedoms left to Wade are in his head and in the yard. But the yard, as he soon finds out, has been turned into a figurative gladitorial arena for the inmates of The SHU, where prison politics and violence rules, and you had better be good at both. As he struggles to survive inside, Wade discovers two things—the humanity of his cellmate, an infamous multiple murderer (Val Kilmer), and the growing sadism of one of the guards.
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