The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Metacritic86/100
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Olivier AlaryOriginal Music Composer
- Brett StoryDirector
- Brett StoryWriter
Cast
- Charisse DavidsonSelf
- Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
Stills
Themes
woman director