Cellmates (2012)

  • NR
  • 06/01/2012 (US)
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 1h 25m

Overview

Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.

Stefania Moscato

Writer

Jesse Baget

Writer, Director

Cast

Tom Sizemore's headshot

Tom Sizemore

Leroy Lowe
Stacy Keach's headshot

Stacy Keach

Warden Merville
Kevin Farley's headshot

Kevin Farley

Bubba
Héctor Jiménez's headshot

Héctor Jiménez

Emilio
Olga Segura's headshot

Olga Segura

Madalena
Bob Rickard's headshot

Bob Rickard

Judge
Rock Williams's headshot

Rock Williams

Prison Guard
Tom Gulager's headshot

Tom Gulager

Prison Guard

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