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Stranger Inside Details

2001 Certificate 18
  • Rated:
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Treasure Lee has been serving time for her crimes since her teenage years. Reaching adulthood she is now being transferred to an adult maximum security prison. Here she is taken in by Brownie, a woman who has been hardened by a life behind bars. Treasure joins Brownie and a sisterhood of female inmates who protect one another .. Read more

Starring Yolanda Ross, Davenia McFadden, Rain Phoenix
Director Cheryl Dunye
Genres Drama

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Stranger Inside

Treasure Lee has been serving time for her crimes since her teenage years. Reaching adulthood she is now being transferred to an adult maximum security prison. Here she is taken in by Brownie, a woman who has been hardened by a life behind bars. Treasure joins Brownie and a sisterhood of female inmates who protect one another from the harsh realities on the inside. Entering this world, Treasure is about to discover that being in a protected family can also bring an individual closer to danger.

Starring Yolanda Ross, Davenia McFadden, Rain Phoenix
Director Cheryl Dunye
Studio CINEMA CLUB
Run time DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 03 Feb 2003
Production year: 2001
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Pitching itself well above the usual lesbian prison drama by taking time to explore key issues of Afro-American race and the social damage done by incarceration, director Cheryl (The Watermelon Woman) Dunye's unflinching made-for-cable movie is a worthy if intermittently affecting polemic. Tough young offender Yolanda Ross gets herself transferred to the same prison where her mother is serving a life sentence. As they uneasily bond behind bars, and hardened mother shows long-lost daughter the inside ropes, both must face each other's hurt and dark past secrets. A gritty and realistic antithesis to Prisoner: Cell Block H expectations, Dunye deliberately subverts women-in-prison clichés for her own purpose while cleverly indulging in them at the same time. Strong performances from the two leads, and lesbian icon Rain Phoenix, make Dunye's jailhouse rock with a provocative and compelling atmosphere.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Impressive HBO drama set in a women's prison. Treasure makes sure she's transferred from juve, intent on meeting the... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 5 stars

    Excellent

    Cherly did a fantastic job I loved this film had to watch it twice and then a lot of things clicked into place love this film bad. I did not know it was a Cherly Dunye film when I rented it but glad I found it. Excellent film 10 stars

      • funky from Brixton
      • Posted 26 Jul 2005 23:15

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  • Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Hard Stuff

    Set in a womens' prison, this hard hitting film, which seems like a superior TV play, has some more than adequate acting and a tense plot which leaves you very surprised at the end. Not for the squeamish, and unfortunately, like much dialogue in American films, hard to understand at times.

      • Cato
      • Posted 22 May 2009 11:18

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      Treasure Lee has been serving time for her crimes since her teenage years. Reaching adulthood she is now being transferred to an adult maximum security prison. Here she is taken in by Brownie, a woman who has been hardened by a life behind bars. Treasure joins Brownie and a sisterhood of female ...