Cellmates (2011)
85 min
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.
- Release date
- June 1, 2012
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Tom Sizemore as Leroy Lowe
- Stacy Keach as Warden Merville
- Kevin P. Farley as Bubba
- Héctor Jiménez as Emilio
- Olga Segura as Madalena
- Bob Rickard as Judge
- Rock Williams as Prison Guard
- Tom Gulager as Prison Guard
- Kaj Sturdivant as Prison Guard
- Leighton R. Shields as Minister
Crew
- Jesse Baget · Director
- Jesse Baget · Writer
- Stefania Moscato · Writer
- Jesse Baget · Producer
- Jose Daniel Bort · Producer
- Andrea Bottigliero · Producer
- Karuna Eberl · Producer
- Jim Lang · Composer
- Bill Otto · Cinematographer
- Jesse Baget · Editor
- Andrea Bottigliero · Editor
- Elvis Strange · Production designer