Death Sentence (2007 film)

Death Sentence
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Wan
Screenplay by	Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Based on	Death Sentence by Brian Garfield
Produced by	Ashok Amritraj Howard Baldwin Karen Baldwin
Starring	Kevin Bacon Garrett Hedlund Kelly Preston Aisha Tyler John Goodman
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Edited by	Michael N. Knue
Music by	Charlie Clouser
Production companies	20th Century Fox Hyde Park Entertainment Baldwin Entertainment Group
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	August 31, 2007 (2007-08-31)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million[1]
Box office	$17 million[2]

Death Sentence is a 2007 American vigilante action thriller film directed by James Wan and starring Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang member as an initiation ritual; Hume must then protect his family from the gang's resulting vengeance. The film is loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield; although the novel is a sequel to Garfield's Death Wish, the film is unconnected to the previous Death Wish film series.

Death Sentence was released by 20th Century Fox on August 31, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 8, 2008. It earned over $16 million and received negative reviews from critics.