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Stranger Inside
2001
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 |
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| 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 | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Feb 2003 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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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.
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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
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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
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2 out of 8 people found this review helpful
stranger inside
The film is about a young woman's dream/fantasy of recapturing the archetypal missing mother and chronicles her transformation from a girl who knows what she wants (to find her mother, Brownie, who is locked up in the federal penitentiary) to a young woman whose self-discovery becomes her ultimate grief.
This is the story of a young woman (Treasure) seeking her mother in the prison system. Treasure is a tough juvenile offender who has never known her mother. When she learns that her mother, known as Brownie, is in a nearby prison for life, Treasure attacks a fellow inmate to get transferred to the state penitentiary.
Once she arrives, she and her mother soon bond, and Brownie puts Treasure to work dealing drugs as part of her team. As Treasure gets in deeper, she discovers that her mother isn't everything she pretends to be.
It's not a film you'll want to watch over and over though. -
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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 ...
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