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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 47153
Released: January 14, 2003 |
| Our Price: $2.99 |
| Used Price: $1.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Anamorphic Closed-captioned Color Dolby DVD-Video Full Screen Subtitled Widescreen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Mary J. Blige and Q-Tip two of hip-hop's hottest recording artists star in this heart-wrenching family drama about an innocent man's struggle to live and survive behind bars.Running Time: 94 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043613326
Description of Prison Song:
Like Chicago, Prison Song is a musical set behind bars, but there's no dancing and minimal singing. Elijah is a talented 10-year-old photographer. His mother (R&B diva Mary J. Blige) works at a fast food joint and dreams of becoming a lawyer. The sky's the limit until Elijah, his mother, and his mother's boyfriend (Harold Perrineau) are all locked up for various offenses. The story picks up several years later as Elijah (now played by A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip) is accepted to college, but ends up in prison after accidentally killing another group home resident (rapper Fat Joe). Prison Song was cowritten and produced by Q-Tip and Darnell Martin (I Like It Like That) and plays like an extended episode of Oz (in which Perrineau played a key role). Blige's "Mom's Song" is the musical highlight, and Elvis Costello appears as Elijah's teacher and lawyer, but does not sing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Prison Song Reviews:
damn good movie 
2007-10-18 - this was a great movie. i thought it would be lackluster and semi comedic since it had rappers in it. though they arent exactly thespians, this movie was great. i was sad at the end.
Now that is what I am talking about 
2006-12-14 - I thought this movie was a major attempt to illuminate the struggle in inner city life. It would have been one of success and triumph except for a system that tends funnel many people into the criminal justice enviornment. Most importantly it showed how the profit motives of the criminal justice systems rewards what can only be called current day slave holders all under the glaring eyes of serving justice. It should be watched not on BET with commercials destroying the pace and fabric of the film maker but in a theatre or if not possible at home. Beautiful performance by Mary J and the rest of the case. KUDOS
Prison Song Success 
2005-07-28 - I thought this movie was pretty good. I watched it for the first time two days ago. Loved the scene with Qtip putting his hands up as if they were a camera and taking pictures, "Click, click". The overall movie was great and I loved the music which leads me to this subject: I can not find this soundtrack anywhere. If there is someone out there that has any input please help as I am desperate to get this music. bigcinc2003@yahoo.com
DJLEODNY
2005-02-18 - I loved this movie when I saw it on BET. I love Mary J Blige and loved the music. I had to have it. It was worth the purchase because I have watched it a million times! The message is a great one and it always makes me cry at the end! You won't be sorry!
Dramaticly Touching Movie
2004-12-21 - this movie is a good life explaining movie about a normal african american male whos childhood was troubled by the law...and how so many convicts doesnt have the mentality to survive in prison and how they just have a emontional breakdowns...cuz they want their freedom and that they go through extreme extents just to obtain it even when they face death just to posses that certain freedom they long for..that death may be the only way a convicts freedom will be obtained
