Mrs. Soffel

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American film crime drama film film period film

Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 American period crime drama film starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson, based on the true story of a warden’s wife who helps two convicted murderers escape from a Pittsburgh prison.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → crime drama film → film → period film →
basedOn	Biddle brothers prison escape → true story →
cinematographyBy	Russell Boyd →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Gillian Armstrong →
distributedBy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
distributorRegion	North America →
editedBy	Nicholas Beauman →
filmingStyle	period drama →
filmRating	PG-13 →
genre	crime drama → romantic drama →
hasCastMember	Diane Keaton → Edward Herrmann → Matthew Modine → Mel Gibson →
mainCharacter	Kate Soffel →
mainCharacterOccupation	prison warden’s wife →
musicBy	Mark Isham →
narrativeFocus	forbidden romance → prison escape →
notableFor	depiction of a real-life prison escape in early 20th-century Pittsburgh →
originalLanguage	English →
plotSummary	A warden’s wife falls in love with a condemned prisoner and helps him and his brother escape from prison. →
producer	Edward S. Feldman →
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer →
releaseDate	1984-12-14 →
releaseYear	1984 →
runtimeMinutes	112 →
screenwriter	Ron Nyswaner → Sylvia Nasar →
settingLocation	Pittsburgh →
settingTimePeriod	early 1900s →
starring	Diane Keaton → Edward Herrmann → Matthew Modine → Mel Gibson →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gillian Armstrong →	directorOf