The Prison Break story is not originally a movie but a TV series that first aired in 2005, though it did include a TV movie titled Prison Break: The Final Break in 2009.
Here’s a breakdown of the series and the TV movie that people often refer to when they mention the “Prison Break movie”:
The story begins when Michael Scofield, a brilliant structural engineer, deliberately gets himself imprisoned in Fox River State Penitentiary to help his older brother, Lincoln Burrows, escape. Lincoln has been wrongly convicted of murder and is on death row. Michael uses his intelligence, a full-body tattoo of the prison’s blueprints, and a carefully laid plan to break Lincoln out.
Sara Tancredi (Michael’s wife) is imprisoned for the murder of Michael’s mother. Michael devises a plan to break her out from the Miami-Dade Women’s Facility. It’s a tense, emotionally charged episode where Michael makes the ultimate sacrifice to ensure Sara’s freedom. This movie explains why Michael is shown to be dead at the end of Season 4.
