

What happens when prisoners hold all the cards and nobody blinks first?
a relentlessly nerve-wracking deadlock between three convicts and an emergency response team deployed to quell the rebellion.
Acting
Holland's unraveling leader vs Berry's crumbling warden
Direction
Shandel squeezes dread from empty hallways
Director
Tom Shandel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot at the actual Oakalla Prison in British Columbia shortly before its closure, with real former inmates as extras.
Part of a forgotten wave of Canadian prison dramas that peaked with 'Fortune and Men's Eyes'—this one vanished almost entirely until recent archival rediscovery.