The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Ratings
IMDb5.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes76%
Metacritic67/100
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
88 audience votes
Key crew
- Jonathan DemmeWriter
- Jonathan DemmeDirector
- John CaleOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Juanita BrownMaggie
- Roberta CollinsBelle Tyson
- Erica GavinJacqueline Wilson
- Ella ReidPandora
- Cheryl SmithLavelle
- Barbara SteeleSupt. McQueen
- Warren MillerDr. Randolph
- Crystin SinclaireCrazy Alice
- Toby Carr RafelsonPinter
- Mickey FoxBernice
- Irene StokesHazel
- Cynthia SongéRosemary
Stills
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Themes
dreamsrapegas stationwomen's prisonprison wardenjailsexploitationescape attemptelectroshock therapy