Stranger Inside
Stranger Inside is a television drama film directed by Cheryl Dunye that premiered on cable television in 2001. The story primarily concerns African-American lesbians in prison. Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., helped to produce it. In a 2004 issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with actual female inmates to produce the script.
Plot
Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, so she purposely gets into trouble in order to be transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet her. In the new prison, she reunites with an old friend Shadow (LaTanya Hagans). She meets new inmates, such as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring rapper, and Doodle (Ella Joyce), a religious, homophobic woman who is involved with a male correctional officer.
Cast
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author | Catherine Crouch |
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director | Cheryl Dunye |
editor | Cecily Rhett |
genre | drama |
keywords | ankh asian asian people basketball basketball court biological mother broken glass confine correctional officer davenia mcfadden drug paraphernalia ella joyce fight flirt homophobia homophobic how to kill lee garlington meet nazi neo-nazi nothing old friend rain phoenix rapper read selling drugs solitary confinement wait warden wheelchair |
musicBy | Mychael Danna |
producer | Effie Brown Jim McKay Michael Stipe |
publisher | Home Box Office |
theme | lgbt-related prison |