The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 2010
The Next Three Days
Directed by
Paul Haggis
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out …
The story
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Cast
Russell CroweJohn Brennan
Elizabeth BanksLara Brennan
Ty SimpkinsLuke Brennan
Brian DennehyGeorge Brennan
Helen CareyGrace Brennan
Olivia WildeNicole
Daniel SternMeyer Fisk
Jason BegheDetective Quinn
Aisha HindsDetective Collero
Michael BuieMick Brennan
Remy NozikJenna
Liam NeesonDamon
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Tyrone GiordanoMike
RZAMouss
Moran AtiasErit
Nazanin BoniadiElaine
Jonathan TuckerDavid
Lennie JamesLieutenant Nabulsi
Allan SteeleSergeant Harris
Leslie MerrillElizabeth Gesas
Rachel DeaconDuty Nurse
Derek CecilDr. Becsey
Kaitlyn WyldeJulie
Kevin CorriganAlex
Jeff HochendonerAlex's Thug Buddy
Lauren HaggisLyla
James RansoneHarv
Denise Dal VeraEugenie
Glenn TarantoHospital Security Guard
Veronica BrownFemale Guard 1
Lisa Ann GoldsmithFemale Guard 2
Alissa HaggisJunkie
Zachary SondriniPhotoshop Kid
Etta CoxNotary
Barry BradfordJail Guard (Entry Hall)
Rick WarnerCounty Jail Captain
Quantia MaliPhone Operator
Trudie StylerDr. Byrdie Lifson
Fabio PolancoPhone Repairman
David FlickMale Nurse
Sean HuzePrison Guard
Tamara GorskiHospital Nurse
Patrick BrennanHospital Guard
Brenna McDonoughBrenda
Patrick McDadeAirport Security Chief
James Francis Kelly IIILab Van Driver
Jackson NunnPrison Visitor (uncredited)
Melissa JacksonAirline Clerk
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