If you loved In the Valley of Elah, try The Next Three Days
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Paul Haggis, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to In the Valley of Elah, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Next Three Days is
Pittsburgh, winter, a prison visiting room. A husband's desperate plans unfold, a wife's freedom hangs in the balance, a family teeters. Haggis tests the limits of devotion.

