This campy film was made
as a parody of the classic women in prison and film noir styles and features Anne
Heche (Wild Side, If These Walls Could Talk
I and II) in a pre-Ellen role. It's 1952, and Carol (Ione Sky) and
Melba (Bahni Turpin) are both in prison for murder. Melba gets a new cellmate,
Aggie (Missy Crider), who is young and was framed for murder by Jennifer (Heche).
Aggie gets the once over like fresh meat during her first group shower, where
she watches Melba and Carol making out. In a complicated plot, Jennifer
changes her appearance and gets herself put in prison so that she can kill Aggie.
Heche really struts her naked self in the shower. In the end, Jennifer is found
out, and Aggie gets released from prison. This is a fun piece of film, and definitely
missing any of the inmate rape or sadistic warden stuff often seen in the real
women in prison pieces.
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