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Civil Brand
Women prisoners together discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their 'slave labor', the women take over the prison.
14 April 1974, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 March 1956, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 October 1954, New York, USA
25 March 1974, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
20 September 1970, New York City, New York, USA
11 October 1971, Queens, New York, USA
29 July 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 December 1973, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
August 29, 2003
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock.
October 09, 2003
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
October 10, 2003
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals.
August 30, 2003
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will.
October 10, 2003
There's way too much of the usual bonding, beatings, petty humiliation by guards, cat fights in the yard and trips to the hole.
October 11, 2003
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections.
October 13, 2003
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes.
September 09, 2003
If Civil Brand hopes to raise awareness or instigate reform, what it really needs is a greater focus on character over convention.
October 10, 2003
Barnette, a veteran TV director, means this as an exposé of prison abuse and exploitation, but the film is too simplistic and derivative to succeed.
October 09, 2003
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation.
October 16, 2003
It's impossible to ignore the strain of misogyny that taints the movie.
December 15, 2003
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning.