Cellmates

2012 1h 25m EN

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6.0

MID

★6.0TMDB · 19

ComedyDrama

Synopsis

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Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Tom Sizemore
Leroy Lowe
Stacy Keach
Warden Merville
Kevin Farley
Bubba
Héctor Jiménez
Emilio
Olga Segura-Gall
Madalena
Bob Rickard
Judge
Rock Williams
Prison Guard
Tom Gulager
Prison Guard

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jesse Baget
Writers: Stefania Moscato, Jesse Baget
Languages: English

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1 / 7

RUNTIME

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85 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 7

ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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3 / 7

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jim Lang. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Tom Sizemore and Stacy Keach and Kevin Farley carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1615480 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 19 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jesse Baget directs. Jim Lang scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

185 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 14 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Jim Lang. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Tom Sizemore and Stacy Keach and Kevin Farley carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt1615480 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 19 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.