Snitch
How far would you go to save your son?
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking.Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience.Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return.
- Director
- Ric Roman Waugh
- Worldwide
- $43M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
15 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.
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Box Office & Release
Snitch returned 1.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $35M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $43M
- Release date
- Feb 21, 2013
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
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