For some people, prison sure looks like a swell place to be. You get a roof over your head, three square meals a day, and free medical care. But the movie Felon argues otherwise. Among the many horrors it depicts about prison life, it points out that your cellmate may turn out to be a famous Hollywood actor who now has a fat face. Well, it turns out to be more respectable work than doing voiceover work for an action-adventure TV show. Guessed who it is yet? If not, read the review!
Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
#1 by Blake Matthews on October 17th, 2008
If you want a bleak prison movie, you should track down “Carandiru”, a Brazilian prison movie based on a true event where the one of the heads of the prison (a colonel in the military), IIRC, ordered the massacre of more than 100 inmates. Interesting thing is that the prison in question was in the middle of the city, close to place where I take the bus in the evening.
#2 by Anrkist on October 17th, 2008
While not a movie HBO’s prison series OZ was pretty decent. Harold Perrineau played a large part in it.