FAQ

After his wife and child are murdered by two criminals, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is informed that one of the murderers will be sentenced to death but the other one, who killed his young daughter, will get off because of his cooperation with the police. Shelton decides to take matters in his own hands, getting revenge on the murderers as well as exposing, in his view, how faulty and inadequate the justice system is, using the very lives of those responsible for setting the one murderer free. District Attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), one of those who helped set the murderer free, tries to stop Shelton.

Law Abiding Citizen is based on a screenplay written by American screenwriter Kurt Wimmer.

The Unrated Director's Cut that was released on Blu-ray disc only features mostly alternate footage and only some real extensions. Most of these are new story pieces but there are also prolonged scenes of violence.