Cellmates

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  • Opened June 1, 2012 
  • 1 hr 26 min
  • Worlds collide when hardened Ku Klux Klansman Leroy Lowe (Tom Sizemore) and Mexican field laborer Emilio (Hector Jimenez) are forced to share a prison cell. The unlikely relationship takes an unexpected turn when the chatty Emilio slowly chips away at Leroy’s gruff exterior in writer/director Jesse Baget’s offbeat buddy comedy which also stars Stacy Keach, Kevin Farley and Olga Segura. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Tom Sizemore, Héctor Jimenez, Stacy Keach, Kevin Farley, Olga Segura, Leighton Shields, James R. Juolfs
  • Director: Jesse Baget
  • Genres: Comedy

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The Hollywood Reporter
| John DeFore

Its low-rent cast and unappealing key art won't help at the box office, but viewers who stumble across it on cable may be pleasantly, if mildly, surprised. Read full review

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Variety
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Director Baget clearly strives to replicate the ersatz Dixie flavors of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" right down to the vintage '30s music in a film set in the 1970s, but nailing the Coen brothers' precisely calibrated style is far harder than it looks. Read full review

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The New York Times
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The credibility is low, the idealism high and the sentiment through the roof in Jesse Baget's slender, micro-budgeted comedy Cellmates, a schematic parable about racism and (less overtly) illegal immigration. Read full review

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Village Voice
| Ernest Hardy

The film, directed by Jesse Baget, aims to be a satiric look at racism but at every turn flaunts the laws of logic and believability. Read full review

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Tom Sizemore as Leroy Lowe in "Cellmates."