When a boy kills his abusive stepfather in self-defense, his mother takes the blame and gets sentenced to a long prison term. The warden is corrupt and forces hot inmates to work as strippers in a local nightclub. Is it a way out?
Acting
Louise Fletcher's warden: Nurse Ratched in a strip club. Iconic descent.
Production
That nightclub set looks like it smells like cigarettes and regret.
Director
Glen Pitre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Catherine Oxenberg, actual European royalty (Serbian princess), plays a working-class mom stripping for freedom. The casting irony is thick enough to cut.
Peak 'women in prison' exploitation revival—this rode the 1990s direct-to-video wave that gave us endless 'jailbird femme fatale' VHS covers.
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