Jailbreak Pact (Spanish: Pacto de fuga) is a 2020 Chilean action thriller film directed by David Albala (in his directorial debut) who co-wrote the script along with Cecilia Ruz, Loreto Caro-Valdés and Susana Quiroz-Saavedra. It stars Benjamín Vicuña, Roberto Farías, Francisca Gavilán, Amparo Noguera, Víctor Montero, Diego Ruiz, Catalina Martín and Eusebio Arenas. It is inspired by the prison escape that occurred on 30 January 1990, known as Operation Success in the Public Jail of Santiago.
The film was named on the shortlist for Chilean's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not selected.
Synopsis In the Santiago Public Prison, 24 inmates secretly dug a tunnel over 80 meters long, hiding 55 tons of earth within the prison. The construction, which took them more than a year, was completed using nothing more than a screwdriver. Neither the neighboring prisoners nor the guards who monitored them daily uncovered the plan, which ultimately led to the escape of 49 inmates in one of the most astonishing jailbreaks in Chilean criminal history.
Cast The actors participating in this film are:
Production Principal photography began on 22 November 2017, and ended on 15 January 2018, in Santiago, Chile.
Release Jailbreak Pact was scheduled to premiere on 24 October 2019, in Chilean theaters, but it was delayed due to the social outbreak that occurred in Chile in October of that same year. Finally, it was released on 23 January 2020, in Chilean theaters.
Reception Box-office Jailbreak Pact sold 7,092 theater tickets on its first day of release. It increased to 125,626 viewers for its second week in theaters. By the fourth week, the film grossed $250,000. It ended its run in theaters having attracted 225,159 viewers to Chilean theaters.
Critical reception Phuong Le from The Guardian highlights the acting work of the main actors who manage to be exciting, although they become overshadowed by other elements such as forced and overexposed dialogues. However, he concludes that it still manages to be entertaining and remarkable for David Albala's directorial debut.
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