Badja Djola,
Chuck Mitchell,
Chuck Pollard,
Gloria Delaney,
Hazel Spears
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This gritty indie film depicts the brutality of prison life through drifter Martel Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy), nicknamed "Too Sweet." After getting knocked out in a fight, Too Sweet is sent to priso...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 20, 2000
Stats: 36 reviews
Man is this film homoerotic (@ least the first 3rd anyways). It kinda subsides once the boxing starts (you get a couple of scenes of hetrosexual action in the bathrooms). I liked the sequel more; it had Mr T w/ a genie lamp in it for crying out loud
As a second wave of blaxploitation flicks that emerge out of the 1970's,the movie Penitentiary is still bedeviled by the uncomfortable contradictions of its macho forebearers,which made it a huge boxoffice hit when it was released in 1979. It's basically the servicable yarn of a ...( read more)
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