![]() When Darby's remains are found, evidence ties his death to Clyde Clyde willingly surrenders and goes to prison. Clyde straps Darby to a table, makes medical preparations to prolong Darby's suffering, and then video-records himself dismembering and killing him. He paralyzes Darby with tetrodotoxin-coated spikes on the handle of the gun that Darby snatched. There, the officer reveals that he is Clyde, and that he made the call. Following directions over the phone, Darby has the officer drive them to a deserted warehouse. As the police draw near Darby sneaks into a police car and, at taking the lone officer's gun, forces him to drive from the location. The caller, using an electronically distorted voice, knows that there's cocaine, and a possibly underaged woman in the apartment, and warns Darby that he's looking at life in prison. Meanwhile, Darby is awakened by an anonymous caller alerting him that police are en-route to his apartment looking for him. Ten years later, Ames is executed via lethal injection, but he dies in agonizing pain due to a chemical alteration which contains evidence implicating Darby. Clyde feels betrayed by Nick and the justice system. Ames is convicted and sentenced to death, while Darby is released after a few years. Unwilling to risk lowering his high conviction rate, he makes a deal with Darby: in exchange for testifying against his accomplice, Rupert Ames (who only intended to steal from Clyde and flee), Darby will plead guilty to third degree murder and receive a lighter sentence. Prosecuting attorney Nick Rice is unable to securely convict Darby due to mishandled evidence. In a Philadelphia home invasion, Clarence Darby murders the wife and daughter of engineer Clyde Shelton, who is forced to watch. Gary Gray (Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture). ![]() The film also garnered NAACP Image Awards nominations for both Jamie Foxx (Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture) and F. ![]() ![]() The film was nominated for a Saturn Award as the Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film of the year, but lost to Inglourious Basterds. Law Abiding Citizen was filmed on location in Philadelphia, and released theatrically by Overture Films in North America on October 16, 2009. It stars Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx and takes place in Philadelphia, telling the story of a man driven to seek justice while targeting not only his family's killer but also those who have supported a corrupt criminal justice system, intending to assassinate anyone supporting the system. Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer.
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