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Starred Up
Why this pick
Matches Dog Pound’s raw institutional violence and volatile young protagonist, observing how confinement turns every relationship into a test of dominance, survival, and fragile self-control.
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MOVIE2010 1h 31m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Butch, Davis and Angel are teenagers who have been sentenced to Enola Vale Youth detention center in Montana. The focus is on Butch, who has been imprisoned for attacking and blinding a Prison officer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Adam Butcher
Butch
Shane Kippel
Davis
Mateo Morales
Angel
Dewshane Williams
Frank
Trent McMullen
Sands
Bryan Murphy
Eckersley
Alexander Conti
Sal
William Christopher Ellis
Meakin