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1977

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Based on a play by Miguel Pinero, Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a "short eyes", the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past, they believe Bruce to be the .. Read more

Starring	Bruce Davison, José Pérez, Nathan George, Don Blakely
Director	Robert M. Young
Genres	Drama

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Short Eyes

Starring	Bruce Davison, José Pérez, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Tony DiBenedetto, Shawn Elliott, Tito Goya, Joseph Carberry, Bob Maroff, Keith Davis, Miguel Pinero, Bob O'Connell, Mark Margolis, Richard Matamoros, Luis Guzman
Director	Robert M. Young
Studio	METRODOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1977 To Rent: DVD: 22 Sep 2008

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- The most emotionally accurate--the most frightening--movie about American prisons ever made
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- - The New Yorker
  - 02 Sep 2008 at 00:29
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  Forgot this was made in 1977 and this now explains why it was so very out of touch with current prison dramas. For it's time it was probably gritty and ... read more »
  
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  Based on a play by Miguel Pinero, Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a "short eyes", the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past,...