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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0085365627420
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lightyear Video
Manufacturer: Lightyear Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lightyear Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 51184
Studio: Lightyear Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Randy commits a victimless crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the 'three-strikes' world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs Randy that he slit his wife's throat because she slept with another man just three months after they exchanged vows. Jake recognizes Randy's fear and offers him advice on how to make it in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Jake has much more than mentoring in mind as he takes Randy under his wing. 'Jailbait' sets a darkly cerebral tone, juxtaposing brutality with the unattainable ideal of intimacy in the harshest of psychological environments. For these two men so yearning to be anything but who they are and where they are, power is the goal, and it's never clear who truly holds it right up to the last unsettling moment.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Strong Performance By Adly Guirgis
This movie I fell for for 2 reasons...First,because I am a major Michael Pitt lover and secondly because Stephen Adly Guirgis is one hell of an actor. Guirgis gave a performance in this movie like nobody's business, it was inspeakably incredible and powerful. Has this actor done anything else because he really deserves to up there as one academy award winning actor!!! Michael Pitt is his meek adorable self as usual though he plays a convict in jail for writing obscene language on a man's car which ... Read More
Rating:  - I hated this
This movie is as painful to watch, as it would be to actually spend years in jail. Really makes you feel like you are there. Was hoping for a nice shot of the boy at least but there's no nudity worth seeing.
Rating: - Shocker! A+
I own this film and actor Michael Pitt really shines in this role. This film is an absolute rollarcoaster ride that takes place in one jail cell...and there's no way out!
Rating: - Thought Provoking and Emotional
"JAILBAIT"
Thought-provoking and Emotional
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
Surely one of the most fascinating films I have seen this year is ?Jailbait? from Warner Brothers and now out on DVD. It tells the story of Randy who commits a victimless crime that would ordinarily have put him on probation but because of the ?three strikes of justice? he is locked up for twenty-five years. His cellmate is Jake who at first seems to be the most congenial of all people ... Read More
Rating:  - Riveting performances in powerful film about mandatory prison sentences
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Lake Placid Film Festival, "Jailbait" is the story of Randy, just a few years out of high school, who makes the mistake of testing California's "three strikes" felony law (on two pot possession charges and one vandalism) and finds himself with a 25 year prison sentence. The film opens with his goodbye to his mother and arrival at the prison, where he is assigned a cell with an older "lifer", Jake, who befriends him at first, but later preys on Randy's fear ... Read More
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