Penetentiary (DVD)

Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1979 / Suitable for 18 years and over / Director: Jamaa Fanaka / ... more

Penetentiary (DVD) ... Actors: Chuck Mitchell, Thomas M. Pollard, Carl Irwin, Thommy Pollard, Gloria Delaney ... / VHS Tape released 2000-01-24 at Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Features of the VHS Tape: PAL

Newest Review: ... off a movie too soon, and in doing so watched Penitentiary until the very end, what I sadly was doing was not giving a movie ... more

... a chance, but literally throwing away a hundred minutes of my life. Watching this movie is rather like spending 20 years doing a job you hate, it's offensive and almost painful. The story itself staggers between bad storytelling to bad editing; this is the reason why I find trying to tell the movie in a review so much of a blur. The movie is pretty much an opportunity to display black people in the worst possible light stereotyping them into the category of rapists, drug addicts, murderers and crazy folks. From the fi...more

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Penetentiary (DVD): Racist Diabolical Film-making (758 words)
by - written on 10/08/08 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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As a child I remember friends of my mother's talking passionately about the Penitentiary movies; to hear the tales of these movies you would think they were the best films ever made. These friends were fairly middle class with aspirations to go higher in the class system, as a child our family worshipped this couple, but as an adult I come to realise that this couple had absolutely no class at all. Never have I been so sure about the low standards of these friends than after recently watching Penitentiary, undoubtedly one of the worst "cult" movies I have ever seen. It's hard to know where to start with this movie because to be honest with you it's ... Read the complete review

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