Lockdown - innocent in jail
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lockdown - innocent in jail |
| Original title | Lockdown |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Luessenhop |
| script | Preston A. Whitmore II |
| production |
Jeff Clanagan Stevie Lockett Oren Koules Mark Castle Dan Genetti |
| music | John Frizzell |
| camera | Chris Chomyn |
| cut | Joseph Gutowski |
| occupation | |
Lockdown - Innocent in prison (Original title: Lockdown ) is an American film drama from the director John Luessenhop from 2000 with Richard T. Jones , Master P and Gabriel Casseus in the leading roles.
action
The Colored Avery Montgomery has one and a half years at the college accepted a temporary job to be in New Mexico to earn money for his young family, his girlfriend Krista and the common young son Jordan, and to his great hobby, swimming pursue. After a particularly outstanding swimming competition victory, in which he was cheered on by his colored friends Cashmere and Dre with “ nigger ” shouts, college talent scout Charles Pierce offered him a scholarship .
Avery decides to celebrate his victory that night with Cashmere and Dre, whom he has known since childhood. They drive through the night with Cashmeres Cabrio, singing and exuberant . “Broadway”, a gangster indebted to Cashmere, leaves the murder weapon from a previously committed robbery of an employee of a drive-in restaurant in his car . Dre suddenly discovers the gun on the floor of the car, but it doesn't belong to any of the three friends. At that moment they are stopped by a police patrol because their vehicle matches the description of the perpetrator's vehicle. When the police asked her to get out of the car with her hands up, she was attacked by Cashmere's dog and promptly shot the animal. Cashmere then loses his composure and points the gun from the car at the policewoman, who shoots him and wounds him in the shoulder. They are all arrested .
The three friends come to court and are convicted of innocent murder because of the murder weapon and incorrect testimony and are locked together in the same prison . Each of the three experiences their arrival in prison differently. Cashmere can assert itself in prison and immediately joins the dangerous black gang of "Clean Up". Avery shares his cell with the clever black Malachi Young who only has two months to serve. Dre, the weakest of the three friends, is brutally beaten and raped by his white cellmate "Graffiti".
Clean Up has respect in his gang because he can get anything prisoners want, especially drugs. His "business" is even covered by a corrupt official. The Graffiti gang tries to compete with Clean Up in drug trafficking , but faces a setback when one of their members, Nuke, is killed by the Clean Up gang.
The situation grows tense after Dre and Graffiti brawl, in which Avery and Malachi Young intervene to save Dre. Malachi Young blames a commission of inquiry and, after parting with Avery, is transferred to a maximum security prison.
Meanwhile, someone betrayed the Clean Up drug couriers. Clean Up blames Cashmere for trying to recruit Avery into the drug trade on Clean Up's behalf. However, the gang was betrayed, which they do not know, by Cashmere's cellmate, who overheard the recruitment interview. Then Clean Up threatens to kill Cashmere if he does not kill the supposed traitor Avery.
At a prison choir concert, Dre takes the opportunity and stabs graffiti with a knife. The corrupt prison guard who works with Graffiti's gang then kills Dre with a baton .
Meanwhile, Avery's friend Krista - with the help offered by Charles Pierce and his daughter, lawyer Marisa - tries to prove Avery's innocence by speaking to Broadway in jail. Broadway, in another jail for another crime, hangs himself and leaves a letter admitting full guilt for the murder in the drive-in restaurant. Marisa submits the letter to the judge for Avery's innocence to be determined.
While out in the yard , a prison riot breaks out in which Cashmere intends to attack Avery. Clean Up also intervenes and wants to attack Avery too. Before that, however, Clean Up is killed by Cashmere because he thinks about it and decides to stand by his old friend Avery after he had almost killed him himself. Cashmere then asks Avery for forgiveness. Avery gives out cashmere and they want to hug. Since Cashmere still has a knife in his hand, a prison guard assumes that Avery is going to stab him. The guard shoots Cashmere. Before anything else can happen, prison guards come to Avery and lead him away.
After rehabilitation, Avery is released from prison and can finally go back to his girlfriend and son.
background
The shooting took place in Albuquerque , New Mexico, USA, in New Mexico , USA and in Santa Fe , New Mexico, USA.
The film was released internationally on September 15, 2000. It was released in cinemas in the United States on February 14, 2003. By March 16, 2003 it grossed US $ 449,482 in the USA (around US $ 200,000 on the opening weekend at 75 theaters).
Cast and dubbing
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Richard T. Jones | Avery Montgomery | Nicolas Boell |
| Gabriel Casseus | Cashmere | Charles Rettinghaus |
| De'Aundre Bonds | Dre | Julien Haggége |
| Sticky Fingaz | Broadway | Marcel Collé |
| Master P | Clean up | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Clifton Powell | Malachi Young | Jan Spitzer |
| David "Shark" Fralick | graffiti | K. Dieter Klebsch |
| Melissa De Sousa | Krista, Avery's friend | Bianca Krahl |
| Bill Nunn | Charles Pierce, RA and college talent scout | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Paulette Braxton | Marisa Pierce, lawyer | Nana Spier |
| Courtney McLean | Nuke | |
| Anna Maria Horsford | Saunders | |
| Chrystale Wilson | Dana | Antje von der Ahe |
| Mike Butters | Barkley | Jörg Döring |
| Joe Torry | Alize | Simon hunter |
| Mary Evans | Anderson |
Reviews
Kino.de assessed: “Intrigues and gang fights staged up close, typical material for action-packed genre films, is the focus of a black cinema jail epic that is otherwise painted as critical drama. Highly qualified black actors of the second ranks fill the usual clichés of the wise, old murderer to the impulsive ghetto killer to the well-read innocent lamb, while the judicial staff mainly shines with sadistic incompetence. High-gloss B-movie with style and impact, genre fans are taking it. "
ssl.ofdb.de said: Lockdown has a “conventionally knitted story, which, however, clearly takes a backseat due to the detailed and drastic depicted conditions in prison. Without the typical, romantic, romanticized camaraderie in prison, without the sadistic guards or directors and without sticking a finger in the social wound, a description of everyday prison life that cannot be surpassed in violence and hopelessness succeeds here. "
Web links
- Lockdown - innocent in jail in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lockdown - Innocent in jail. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Film review retrieved from Kino.de.
- ↑ Film review retrieved from ssl.ofdb.de.