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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794203641
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0794203647
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 38865
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Though time and HBO's Oz have eclipsed its ground-breaking impact, Short Eyes remains a milestone of American independent film, and a vital entry in the prison-film genre. Adapted by Miguel Piñero from his acclaimed play, this gritty drama was filmed in Manhattan's infamous Men's House of Detention (better known as 'the Tombs'), giving a rough, authentic edge to Piñero's unflinching portrait of men trapped in legal-system limbo. Inmate tensions intensify when an alleged pedophile ('Short Eyes' in prison slang, played by Bruce Davison) is dropped into detention, and instantly ostracized by white, Latino, and black inmates alike. Under the documentary-like direction of Robert M. Young, this claustrophobic, emotionally raw study of hopelessness was a real eye-opener for its time (1977), revealing depths of anguish, danger, and cruelty that had never before been dramatized on film. Paving the way for harsher prison dramas that followed, Short Eyes features Piñero in a supporting role, and look closely for Traffic's Luis Guzmán in his screen debut. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - High Prison Drama
"Short Eyes" is not the average prison film.
So if you watch the movie with preconceived ideas
about Hollywood prison life, most likely you
won't like the movie. While all the ingredients of
an accurate inmate experience are included,
it's done so in an intelligent, suggested manner.
There is no sex, no nudity, and minimal violence (though
nonetheless graphic is the violence that does appear).
The lack of these elements would normally turn ... Read More
Rating: - Jesus help me, 'cause man won't.
"Short Eyes," based on the play by Miguel Pinero, is probably the first prison drama to tell what life in prison is really like. For example, violence is not dramatic in the movie- it's casual and unexpected. In one scene, a prisoner is mopping the floor, and someone puts his arm into the gate just as it's closing, breaking his arm. Several other prisoners take cheap shots at him as they walk by. In addition, there's definitely a sense that there's danger and tension just below the surface every day; ... Read More
Rating:  - movie
shipment was fast, the dvd was what we were looking for.
thank you for your service
Rating: - nothing short in these eyes
I remember seeing this as a teenager and thinking to myself this is not Willard.Although Bruce Davidson is as creepy in Short Eyes as he was in Willard these are two different animals.This movie paved it's way toward more harsher prison films later on this one marks Lois Guzman's screen debut and at first I missed him.Yepper he's that quick in the scene.Although Short Eyes isn't awardwinning by any standards It still gets under my skin only because of the news and widespread topics centering on Pedophiles.It's ... Read More
Rating: - Tough little film
"Short Eyes" was released in 1977 and stars a multi-ethnic cast playing inmates in a Sing-Sing style prison. The prisoners belong to tight groups, divided primarily along racial lines, and co-exist with relatively little violence. They even have a "council," comprised of the leaders of the various groups, that establishes acceptable actions for the prisoners. Into this composition comes Bruce Davison, an alleged child molester, who the prisoners dub "freak" and "short eyes." The story is told rather loosely ... Read More
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