Jailbait (2004)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 6
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A high school football player is accused of the statutory rape of his 16-year-old girlfriend in this made-for-MTV movie. TV's Matt Frewer stars. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
Aug 4, 2004 Wide
Oct 24, 2006
Kindred Media Group
Cast
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Michael Pitt
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Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Laila Robins
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Ernest Trosman
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Brad Lee Wind
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All Critics (18) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (15) | DVD (1)
Disturbing and affecting.
Top CriticClaustrophobic and overwrought, Jailbait is an unpleasant excursion into gay panic mitigated somewhat by performances that are hard to shake.
While the stars deliver highly committed performances, the static nature of the proceedings ultimately defeats them.
A stagy, only mildly compelling prison drama that ends up feeling like purgatory to all involved.
I wouldn't have thought it was possible to make a prison picture as utterly boring as Jailbait.
The cruelty of the law has been better demonstrated with news stories, and unless you're a Californian with two strikes against you, I don't know why you'd want to do this movie to yourself.
It's really not much fun watching the non drama of our hero Randy (Michael Pitt) staring at the walls and keeping the hands of the more brutish Jake from clawing up his skirt.
Loaded with talent but not much else.
a grueling acting exercise
This is very hard to watch, a powerful and disturbing film about the inhuman conditions that exist within the American criminal-justice system...
Photography from inside a shoe box makes for a dull film no matter how close up and personal.
Jailbait takes less than 90 minutes to unspool, yet is filled with enough awkward silences to make my last date sound like the Dawson's Creek pilot.
The stage origins are simply everywhere, but this debut feature is so fantastically acted that it inspires indulgence of its first-timers' mistakes.
Not since Tom Arnold was employed as another horny criminal, one who tried awfully hard to sexually abuse Edward Furlong in 2000's "Animal Factory," has a penitentiary movie been so undone by a charisma-less performance.
In the final analysis it all feels very much like a successful acting exercise that while psychologically acute, doesn't really bring much more to the table than what we've already gleaned from a few episodes of Oz.
Unless you like listening to graphic descriptions of gay sex, then don't waste your money."
Jailbait argues that prison is an unpleasant place to spend time, but didn't Oz already destroy any remaining romantic notions about life behind bars years ago?
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