Starred Up
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he…
Starred Up
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated? Juvenile repeat offender Eric Love (19) earns by incorrigible insolence and violent rebellion a 'promotion' from reformatory to adult prison, where his reckless provocative attitude towards staff and fellow inmates bodes grave trouble for all. Eric's ever)absent father Neville is a veteran there, a trusted deputy of informal prison leader Dennis Spencer, who agrees to help trying to get Eric on the road to rehabilitation. Despite Eric's gross abuse of (also hard-handed) jailers, earning deputy governor Hayes's grim hatred, they get him admitted to voluntary therapist Oliver Baumer's group, where 'kid' Eric stirs trouble, misbehaves, needs to be dragged back by Neville who lacks paternal authority or parental tenderness, yet finds support, camaraderie and some sense. But the rowdy already made too many enemies, out for vengeance on the Loves, undermining Dennis's position as guardian of a delicate order among prison scum. —KGF Vissers Eric Love, an explosive 19-year-old repeat offender, ends up in the cruel and violent world of a high-security adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself to his supervisors and other dangerous detainees, Eric must also confront his father, a hardened criminal who spent most of his life behind bars. But first, Eric has to learn how to keep his inner demons at bay to overcome his rage. After all, he has all the time in the world to find new ways to survive. However, sinister forces are at work, threatening to destroy him. —Nick Riganas
Starred Up
Crime,Drama,Thriller
Film Details
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him.
Can he be rehabilitated? Juvenile repeat offender Eric Love (19) earns by incorrigible insolence and violent rebellion a 'promotion' from reformatory to adult prison, where his reckless provocative attitude towards staff and fellow inmates bodes grave trouble for all. Eric's ever)absent father Neville is a veteran there, a trusted deputy of informal prison leader Dennis Spencer, who agrees to help trying to get Eric on the road to rehabilitation. Despite Eric's gross abuse of (also hard-handed) jailers, earning deputy governor Hayes's grim hatred, they get him admitted to voluntary therapist Oliver Baumer's group, where 'kid' Eric stirs trouble, misbehaves, needs to be dragged back by Neville who lacks paternal authority or parental tenderness, yet finds support, camaraderie and some sense.
But the rowdy already made too many enemies, out for vengeance on the Loves, undermining Dennis's position as guardian of a delicate order among prison scum. —KGF Vissers Eric Love, an explosive 19-year-old repeat offender, ends up in the cruel and violent world of a high-security adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself to his supervisors and other dangerous detainees, Eric must also confront his father, a hardened criminal who spent most of his life behind bars.
But first, Eric has to learn how to keep his inner demons at bay to overcome his rage. After all, he has all the time in the world to find new ways to survive. However, sinister forces are at work, threatening to destroy him.
—Nick Riganas.