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Civil Brand
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Women prisoners together discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their 'slave labor', the women take over the prison.
Women prisoners together discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their 'slave labor', the women take over the prison.
Actors:
Chris Dodson,
Lark Voorhies,
Monica Calhoun,
Jerry Foster,
Clifton Powell,
Tichina Arnold,
LisaRaye McCoy
Chris Dodson
Lark Voorhies
25 March 1974, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Monica Calhoun
29 July 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jerry Foster
Clifton Powell
16 March 1956, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Tichina Arnold
28 June 1969, Queens, New York, USA
LisaRaye McCoy
23 September 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Country:
United States
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Filmcritic.com
August 30, 2003
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will.
October 11, 2003
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections.
New York Post
October 10, 2003
Barnette, a veteran TV director, means this as an exposé of prison abuse and exploitation, but the film is too simplistic and derivative to succeed.
August 29, 2003
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock.
Detroit News
October 10, 2003
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals.
December 15, 2003
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning.
October 16, 2003
It's impossible to ignore the strain of misogyny that taints the movie.
October 10, 2003
There's way too much of the usual bonding, beatings, petty humiliation by guards, cat fights in the yard and trips to the hole.
New York Times
October 09, 2003
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation.
September 09, 2003
If Civil Brand hopes to raise awareness or instigate reform, what it really needs is a greater focus on character over convention.
Newark Star-Ledger
October 13, 2003
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes.
October 09, 2003
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.