Director Jonathan Kaplan cut his teeth on exploitation films for Roger Corman (The Student Teachers, Night Call Nurses), so it might seem only natural that he would get around to the women-in-prison genre. But by now he's serious and sensitive, the director of The Accused and Immediate Family, so the sensationalism is limited to some yellow-devil stereotypes and a handful of roaches (this is, to be exact, women-in-prison-in-Thailand). And Claire Danes, who has multiple opportunities to crumple her face, and Kate Beckinsale take no part in the nonprurient shower scene. With Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Lou Diamond Phillips. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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