The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.
Acting
Amy Madigan's ferocious, vulnerable breakout performance.
Writing
Unflinching true-story adaptation that refuses easy catharsis.
Director
Larry Peerce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Terry Jean Moore served as on-set consultant and appears in a brief cameo as a fellow inmate.
Released during the Reagan-era prison boom, the film was largely buried despite Madigan's Cannes Best Actress win — too feminist for mainstream audiences, too bleak for the era's 'tough on crime' mood.
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