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Jailbait
- Director: Brett C. Leonard
- Writer: Brett C. Leonard
- Producer: Rene Bastian; Corbin Day
CGiii Comment
Intense and totally absorbing in the most uncomfortable of ways.
Full credit must go to the two leads, their integrity is a rarity in film.
Leonard does not spoon-feed his audience nor does he take them for granted - another rarity in film.
There are some silly little directorial mistakes - those can be forgiven...due to the obvious passion behind and in front of the camera.
Three-strikes and you are in a blue, music-less world of domination, manipulation, abuse and torment - where strange friendships arise and are relied upon.
Leonard has done little else - which is a shocking indictment on the film industry because this film simply reeks of a talent that is enviable and enriching.
Astounding work.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs Randy that he slit his wife's throat because she slept with another man just three months after they exchanged vows. Jake recognizes Randy's fear and offers him advice on how to make it in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Jake has much more than mentoring in mind as he takes Randy under his wing. "Jailbait" sets a darkly cerebral tone, juxtaposing brutality with the unattainable ideal of intimacy in the harshest of psychological environments. For these two men so yearning to be anything but who they are and where they are, power is the goal, and it's never clear who truly holds it right up to the last unsettling moment.
Cast & Characters
Stephen Adly Guirgis as Jake;
Michael Pitt as Randy;
Laila Robins as Mother;
David Zayas as Guard;
Eric Trosman as Prison Guard;
Brian Albanese as Prisoner;
Ray Wineteer as Prisioner