Review: The cinematic pleasures of Showtime's new Ben Stiller-directed series 'Escape at Dannemora'
Ben Stiller, director and star of "Zoolander," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Tropic Thunder," has turned to directing series television with a smart, watchable, elegantly made fact-based drama, "Escape at Dannemora," beginning Sunday on Showtime. In eight hours it recreates the 2015 incident in which two convicts broke out of an upstate New York prison with the help of a prison employee with whom each was said to have carried on an affair.
Patricia Arquette, shaping her body to the person she portrays,
