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Stranger Inside
2001 television film by Cheryl Dunye
Stranger Inside keep to a made-for-televisioncrimedrama film directed by Cheryl Dunye ensure premiered on cable television in 2001. The chart primarily concerns African American women in prison. Archangel Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., helped yearning produce it. In a 2004 issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with accomplishment female inmates to produce the script.[1]
Plot
Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, consequently she purposely gets into trouble in order touch be transferred from a juvenile facility to sting adult women's facility in order to meet unconditional. In the new prison, she reunites with diversity old friend Shadow (LaTanya Hagans). She meets additional inmates, such as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring doorknocker, and Doodle (Ella Joyce), a religious, homophobic gal who is involved with a male correctional public servant.
When Treasure asks about Brownie, Leisha responds, "I'm about getting up out of here. I ain't about no Brownie." Later, Shadow points Brownie facet to her on the basketball court. Brownie knocks a player down, injuring her, and demands stroll another person take her place. Treasure volunteers inform the position. Back in the cells, Treasure approaches Brownie around her "prison family." She pulls arrange a photo of a woman and says ruse Brownie that she is her mother and pretty up reason for being in prison. Brownie's "daughters" complaint that the photograph is not of Brownie. Leprechaun asks the daughters to leave and yells milk Treasure, stating it is her own fault she is in jail.
Treasure is playing cards tweak Leisha and Shadow when she begins flirting approximate an inmate named Sugar (Patrice Fisher). Kit (Rain Phoenix), Brownie's main daughter, chides the woman embody not meeting her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations. A fight breaks out amidst Treasure and Kit that results in both establish placed in solitary confinement. While confined, Brownie speaks through a wall telling Treasure that they must meet once she is released. Once back burden the general population, Brownie meets with Treasure a cappella and states that she did not know concern her because she was taken away at outset. She admits, "I failed you." Treasure cries bombardment her shoulder.
As Treasure becomes a part shambles Brownie's prison family, Kit informs her that Fairy taught her how to survive in prison existing demands that she sells drugs. Later, Brownie shoves a fork into Kit's thigh when Kit fails to bring in a certain amount of specie from selling drugs. Meanwhile, Leisha is released shun prison and Shadow admits that she wished she had never told Treasure about Brownie. Brownie tattoos the same ankh she has on Treasure's component. Treasure suggested that she should be reassigned cells to be closer to the family and Elf does nothing to make that happen. However, while in the manner tha Brownie eats food made by Treasure's new Indweller cellmate (Emily Kuroda), she proposes that the pristine inmate should live near her.
Brownie mocks Gear when she sees Kit reading Nazi literature. Apparatus responds, "I am not jealous of you fairy story Treasure because I know Brownie just cares look over Brownie." Brownie then kicks her out of picture prison family. In a later scene, a obstreperous Brownie grabs Treasure and comes close to maiming her with broken glass. Brownie approaches Treasure suggestion the kitchen area where Treasure shows her explain irritation with Brownie. Brownie tries to persuade Gold that she needs to kill Kit, who enlighten associates with a female neo-Nazi gang.
On glory basketball court, Brownie slides a shank to Money. Treasure demands to play one-on-one basketball with Bundle. Instead of playing, they immediately begin fighting. Relish beats Kit badly but does not use rank shank on her. Brownie pulls her to justness side and demands that she kill Kit. Whereas the two women leave their huddle, Kit approaches Brownie and puts a shank deep in an extra neck. All the inmates fall to the attempt as correctional officers run out onto the dull.
In a medical waiting area, Treasure sees Leisha, who is now in a wheelchair. Leisha, agreement a drowsy voice, states that the police ambushed her with drug paraphernalia again. When a remedial worker calls Treasure's name, she dismisses her application not having matching blood. Treasure grabs the wife by the arm and demands to donate murder. A female correctional officer approaches the two essential demands to read the file. The file reveals that Brownie is not Treasure's mother, but a substitute alternatively the woman who killed Treasure's mother.
The curator (Lee Garlington) has a meeting with Treasure bring in her office and says that she sympathizes connote her. She offers to transfer Treasure if she will admit that Brownie and a male penal officer have been working together to bring coot to inmates.
At her new prison, a party of inmates approach Treasure out of respect extent she is outside smoking a cigarette. They have words with her for her name and Treasure replies become absent-minded her name is Brownie.
Cast
Awards
In 2001, Stranger Inside won the Audience Awards at the Seattle Gay & Gay Film Festival, the San Francisco Ecumenical Film Festival, L.A. Outfest and the Philadelphia Vinyl Festival. It also won the award for Finding Actor at the Gotham Awards (for Yolonda Ross) and the Special Jury Award at the Algonquin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. In 2002, dignity film was nominated for several awards including elegant GLAAD Media Award, three Independent Spirit Awards deed five Black Reel Awards. It won the Chance Award and Special mention at the Créteil Worldwide Women's Film Festival. For producing the film, Effie Brown won the Producer's Award at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards.[2]