Girls in Prison (1994) (TV)

Director:

John McNaughton

Writers (WGA):

Samuel Fuller (written by) &
Christa Lang (written by)

Release Date:

19 August 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | Crime

Tagline:

Two Sexy Rebels ... In The Wildest Lockup Yet!

Plot:

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Prison | Women's Prison | Anger | Shower

Cast

Missy Crider	...	Aggie O'Hanlon
Anne Heche	...	Jennifer
Ione Skye	...	Carol Madison
Nicolette Scorsese	...	Suzy
Bahni Turpin	...	Melba
Jon Polito	...	Boss Johnson
Nestor Serrano	...	Borcelino
Miguel Sandoval	...	Lucky
Richmond Arquette	...	Det. Dan Campion
Raymond O'Connor	...	Mickey Maven
Tom Towles	...	Norman Stoneface
William Boyett	...	Dr. Shainmark
Angie Rae McKinney	...	Miranda (as Angie Ray McKinney)
Diane McGee	...	Mrs. Felton
Harvey Chao	...	Lum Fong

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and sexuality/nudity.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Showtime Networks

Quotes:

Jennifer: I sell direct... to high-school girls.
Lucky: I know all of Jennifer's haunts. I'll pick up her trail and track her down and conk her. Strip her naked and drive her out to the country... cuff her, grill her, starve her, grill her, starve her until she signs she butchered Johnson and stole your song. But I won't kill her.

Movie Connections:

Edited into "Rebel Highway: Girls in Prison (#1.5)" (1994)

Soundtrack:

ENDLESS SLEEP

Very Watchable

A film doesn't have to be good to be entertaining and GIRLS IN PRISON is a case in point . The intelligence of the script starts and ends with a discussion of The Korean War

" It's supposed to be a police action "

" Yeah ? Then why the hell didn't they send cops "

Which is dialogue that will be forever synonymous with Samuel Fuller who used the line in another film set around The Korean War . But after this exchange strange things start happening where we're shown live footage for the battlefront , something that didn't happen till 'Nam . The McCarthy witch hunts are alluded to but somehow feel overblown and false while someone refers to an ashtray that was given to him by " The King " . What in 1952 ? Maybe he meant the King of England ?

I won't go into too much detail but in a contrived series of events a teenage girl called Aggie O'Hanlon finds herself serving a life sentence for a crime she didn't commit , and it's essential for anyone wanting to enjoy this TVM that they turn off their brain because there's plenty of things that don't make sense . For example a couple of inmates called Melba and Carol promise to protect Aggie . It's never revealed why they do this . Obviously being lesbian lovers it's very easy to jump to the conclusion that they want to involve the sweet and innocent Aggie in female love games but this isn't their motive at all because there is never any explanation for their motive , the audience just have to accept this without question .

The audience have to accept a lot of things that defy credibility as the plot twists and turns but I have to confess I felt very involved in all this , yeah I know melodramatic and far fetched doesn't even begin to describe this movie but it is enjoyable thanks to the good looking cast ( Yes there is some T&A ) and some impressive pastal coloured cinematography from Jean De Segonzac