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Director:
Mai Zetterling
Writers:
Susannah Buxton (writer)
Roy Minton (writer)
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Release Date:
16 March 1983 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
IT'S A CRIME WHAT PRISON CAN DO TO A GIRL!
Plot:
Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Where's ya tool...er, I mean tampon! more (6 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Amanda York ... Carol Howden
Chrissie Cotterill ... Annetta Brady
Elizabeth Edmonds ... Kathleen
Kate Ingram ... Eddie
Amanda Symonds ... Mac
Kathy Burke ... Glennis
Debby Bishop ... Doreen (as Debbie Bishop)
Eva Mottley ... Pam
Imogen Bain ... Sandy
Honey Bane ... Molly
Camille Davis ... Sharon
Rachel Weaver ... Gwen (as Rachael Weaver)
Dawn Archibald ... Mary
Faith Tingle ... Hilary
Lilian Rostkowska ... Phyllis
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Virginia Water, Surrey, England, UK
Company:
HandMade Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Mac: [Mac's final song] A Borstal girl came home one day / To find her love had gone away / She asked him why he went astray / He turned to her, and he did say / "Once, you could have been my wife / If you had led a decent life / But you preferred a life of crime / So, back in side, and do your time." more
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Referenced in "Mayo: (#1.8)" (2006) more

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7 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Where's ya tool...er, I mean tampon!, 2 March 2001
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Author: KillMe666 from Dorset, England

I saw this film on cable recently and remembered how bad it was the first time I saw it.

The story is about female delinquents locked up in an English borstal in the early eighties.

This film blatantly 'borrows' from the film Scum with Ray Winstone and I mean blatant - there's the cut-wrist suicide from one of the more unstable inmates, the hard-nut - Eddie (who replaces Scum's Ray Winstone), and the scene where an attack is made in a deserted part of the compound with a steel bar - Scrubbers version features a slow-motion sequence which is obviously faked!

The only reasons for watching this garbage is to see early roles from Kathy 'I'm smoking a fag!' Burke from the 'Harry Enfield Show', Robbie Coltrane and 'Pat' from 'Eastenders'. As well as many a naked pair of breasts - which make the movie watchable - just.

Verdict - One for the lads.

Oi Oi savaloy!

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