Cellmates Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jesse Baget
Production: Cavu Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
20
Rotten Tomatoes:
47%
TV-14
Year:
2011
85 min
Website
135 Views


to support my cause!

- Right.

- Hundreds of folks are gonna rally at the doorsteps

of this institution

To demand that I be set free!

- Be a mighty spectacle.

- Pure jesus.

Pure jesus. Amen.

- You think you might make it saturday instead?

- What? Why?

Well, I'd rather not cause a hullabaloo on friday.

It's sweet potato day.

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You should try the potatoes today, Leroy.

Pretty darn good for prison fare.

I don't see nothin' in here about my

stirrin' letter,

my call to action!

Don't even see my name mentioned in here.

Oh,

- Wait.

Here's somethin'.

- What?

"The New Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Ratt Sloan,

Had this to say about his predecessor, Leroy "The White Knight" Lowe--"

"I know he tried to join the Louisiana order

on at least two occasions

When he felt attendance

to his klan was slippin'..."

- Well, that's a goddamn jew lie!

- You went to bogalusa once.

- I ain't never been to Bogalusa!

I wouldn't be caught dead in Bogalusa!

- What else it says?

"Furthermore,

Grand Dragon Ratt Sloan "Has learned from unassailable sources

"That Leroy Lowe's mother is a...

Half-Breed jewess by the name of Finkelstein."

Oh, hell no! Oh!

Oh, when i get out of here,

I'm gonna find this son of a b*tch!

Bubba!

Bubba, bubba, bubba,

oh, come on now.

Come on, boy, get up!

Guard! Guard!

That piece of baked potato

That got stuck in bubba's throat

Cut off the oxygen flow to his brain

Longer than any piece of potato has the right to.

Bubba survived,

but he was never quite

the same after that.

He was transferred to low lee tuna

psychiatric ward,

Where he spent

the remainder of his sentence

in imbecilic hebetude.

I know bubba wasn't much to look at,

But he sure was good people.

It's a shame about Bubba,

a real shame.

He was a hard-Working member

of this establishment,

A man who packed potatoes

swiftly and efficiently.

He will be woefully missed.

But we must press on.

I reckon it ain't right for a man

To spend all his time alone

with nobody to talk to,

No matter what his crime is.

Besides, space is a scarce

and valuable commodity here at Low Lee,

And we need to fill

that empty bunk in your cell.

So i'm fixin' to pair you up

with a new cell mate.

Somethin' was in the air

That balmy summer day at Low Lee.

I could sense it as clear as a man feels/i

The hot desert wind on his face.

Somethin' big was headed my way.

Who the hell are you?

- My name is Emilio Ortiz.

- What?

- Emilio Ortiz.

- Guard! Guard, get back here!

You left a Mexican in my cell!

Guard!

Well, well, well...

Leroy Lowe don't like Jews,

He don't like negroes,

and he don't like mexicans neither.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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