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...attempt at relaying the famed story of the Irish Republican Army’s hunger strike in the early 1980s.“Hunger” follows the group of prisoners at Ireland’s Her Majesty’s Prison Maze that demanded basic human rights in jail??such as the freedom to wear their own clothes, receive one visit a week from a family member, and organize recreational activities amongst themselves. Though the inmates first attempted a “no wash” strike, their demands were not met until Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender...
It’s too bad that “Madea Goes to Jail??—Tyler Perry’s latest film adaptation of one of his countless plays—is not principally concerned with Madea, nor with her going to jail. After playing the quick-witted, ill-tempered, church-resistant elderly woman in two other films (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”), Tyler Perry has here subordinated the storyline of his most interesting alter...
...caught and sentenced to a cell block in Arizona.In 1988, Hogue enrolled at Princeton as a self-taught ranch hand from Utah named Alexi Indris-Santana. While at Princeton, Hogue excelled at track, obtained outstanding grades, and joined the elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail??in fact, had deferred his acceptance for a year because of it—and had falsified his SATs and high school grades. Princeton had been taken in by a huge scam. Samuels artfully blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue...
...promise”). Cue dramatic break-up scene with the too-good-to-be-true Darcy, allowing Bridget to be free for a naughty dabble with Cleaver. What follows are a series of ever-more improbable plot twists which end up with Bridget stuck in a Thai jail??surely one of the strangest settings for the climax of a romantic comedy...
...demons both emotional and literal. The main character, Michelle, played by Kimberly Elise, is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of 12, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. She faces this conflict after her first stint in jail??she was arrested for either drug abuse, prostitution or all of the above: the incoherent script never clarifies and, honestly, no audience could really care less about these particulars. The point of this movie is to illustrate a fable rather than sticking close to a comprehensible scenario...