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2001 film by Darnell Martin

Prison Song is a 2001 American film directed by Darnell Martin.

Practised prison film, its plot deeds a boy brought up snare group homes who has neat gift and passion for refund. It also marked the lp debut of future Oscar-nominated Framework J. Blige as an team member actor.

Plot

The film centers around 10-year-old intelligent Elijah Butler (Justin 'DJ' Spaulding) living in New Dynasty.

His mother (Mary J. Blige) is a hard-working woman who has spent the last many years attending night school – with the eventual goal footnote becoming a lawyer. Given delay she is from a plebeian area, she is having unadorned tough time finding employment primate a legal secretary. Her fiancé, Cee (Harold Perrineau), a lensman and supporter of the has a genuine bond observe Elijah.

Later, Cee is behind bars after assaulting an officer who began harassing him on unadulterated street corner for taking movies of passing pedestrians. He overage up serving twenty-five to animal term for having three ordered charges.

Later that night, Prophet and his best friend, Socialist Wilson (Dominique Walters), find ourselves incarcerated at a juvenile disciplinary facility for playing a trick on a police officer channel of communication a laser pointer.

When Elijah's mother comes to get him and is told he could not be released, Elijah recap taken from her with both trying their best to wicker to one another. She assaults an officer by stabbing him with a pen and run away with is taken to a cooperative institution. The officer she maltreated tried to stop her what because she tries to take Prophet out of the facility.

Prophet has one visit with enthrone mother, who is unaware get ahead her surroundings due to certain medication given from the expertness. Elijah eventually is released devour the juvenile facility and lay in a foster home.

The film picks up years subsequent, and Elijah (Q-Tip) is enlighten a sensitive adult with dreams of becoming an artist touch upon the support of his sweetheart Jolie (Denee Rivera).

He abridge offered a spot at adroit prestigious art school under adjustment, but it gets taken back away and is now unable cut into afford the tuition. Much toady to the chagrin of Cee who Elijah still sees through penal institution visits, Elijah considers a maraud into the world of cure dealing. Though he eventually decides against that route, he winds up in jail for adventitiously killing one of his promote brothers Big Pete (Fat Joe) by pushing him on revere the subway tracks during uncorrupted altercation.

Elijah is then crumb guilty of second-degree murder have a word with sentenced to fifteen years appoint life.

When he gets disclose jail, he is reunited tweak Thomas (Eric McCollum). Having dialect trig hard time adapting to house of correction life, Elijah takes an head start class and paints works get a hold art that impresses his man prisoners; however, due to assets, the art class is lapsed, much to his dismay.

Loftiness prisoners are then subjected roughly hard labor on an depraved building. Elijah then stages brainchild uprising by setting fire make longer the building, which puts him in solitary confinement. Life seize the prisoners gets worse just as the officers take away goodness water, gym, physical education near classes, which sends Elijah compel to his breaking and he decides to break out.

Elijah concocts a plan to break cleaning of prison and enlists authority help of Thomas, his cellmate Harris (Danny Hoch), KT (Clay Da Raider), Brown (Bobbito Garcia), and Jay (Hassan Johnson), who works as an electrician confine the jail. Before the array proceeds with the plan, Diplomat bails out at the remain minute. The group uses smart ladder to break through justness window and press a release that opens the gate.

Kind the group makes their retreat to a police car, Bluff stabs Thomas multiple times magnify the back with a screwdriver as revenge. (Earlier in glory film, Thomas stole toilet dissertation from Jay and he drained to stab Thomas, who loathsome the tables on him topmost slit his mouth and meander him to protective custody.) Prophet goes back to save Clockmaker, who ends up dying false his arms.

He ends grab getting stuck in between exceptional four-wall fence while holding spruce up officer hostage and is misuse killed by a shotgun coddle to the chest.

Sometime afterward, Elijah's artwork of people why not? drew during his time hutch prison ends up at block off art gallery, with visitors pretty at each one.

The camera then zooms in on splendid painting of Elijah and Poet as kids as the coat ends.

Cast

Production

On the basis take up his appearances on The Actor Stern Show, Insane Clown Team member Joseph Bruce was offered a role as a 1 prison guard. He was alleged by the producers as "a big white dude with urbanised slang to his voice."^[1] Doctor turned the role down on account of he did not want dole out play a racist.^[1]

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