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Stir (1980)

Director: Stephen Wallace

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From Time Out Film Guide

The title has it: indicating just what Wallace has done (rather well) with the choicest ingredients of prison-pic precursors from Riot in Cell Block 11 to Scum. Within the common angry blend of casual sadism and communal solidarity, though, the individualised confrontation of reluctant opponents neatly re-emphasises the mutually brutalising effect of a repressive penal system.

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Cast & crew

Director: Stephen Wallace

Producer: Richard Brennan

Cast: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Michael Gow, Phil Motherwell, Gary Waddell full cast

Duration: 100 mins


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