Let's Go to Prison
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| Let's Go to Prison | |
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| Directed by | Bob Odenkirk |
| Produced by | Marc Abraham Matt Berenson Paul Young |
| Written by | Ben Garant Thomas Lennon Michael Patrick Jann |
| Starring | Will Arnett Dax Shepard Chi McBride David Koechner |
| Music by | Alan Elliott |
| Cinematography | Ramsey Nickell |
| Editing by | Eric L. Beason Denis Thorlaksen |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 17, 2006 |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million [1] |
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Let's Go to Prison is an American dark comedy that was released in theatres November 17, 2006, starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett and Chi McBride, and directed by Bob Odenkirk.
The movie was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire.
Filming took place at the defunct Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois. The same prison is featured in the beginning of The Blues Brothers and the first season of the Fox show Prison Break.
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[edit] Plot
John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life being a scumbag, thanks to Judge Nelson Biederman III, who has been giving him hard sentences ever since he stole a car at the age of eight. Now he wants revenge, but finds that the judge died an all too peaceful death three days previous to John’s release from prison.
He turns his attention to Nelson Biederman III’s obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett). At a dedication ceremony for Nelson III, John hops into Nelson's BMW, steals his change, spits in his coffee and uses up his inhaler. In the BMW after the ceremony, Nelson IV yells at his attorney (who has the speakerphone on in the fully occupied board room), starts to sing, and when he goes for the inhaler, finds it empty. He stops at a pharmacy, panicked, and starts knocking items off the shelf in an attempt to find a replacement inhaler. The pharmacy owners think he's another junkie robber, and that the inhaler he finally finds is a tiny gun, and call the police. Nelson ends up convicted on that robbery and demands that the Biederman foundation call the governor to dismiss his charges. Even though the governor owes the foundation a favor, the board of directors decide to let Nelson go to prison as they have grown tired of his asinine deportment. John is not satisfied with Nelson just going to prison, however, so John decides to join him in prison by selling marijuana to undercover police officers. At his sentencing he pleads guilty to the same judge Nelson IV had, and asks for the same sentence (3-5) at the same prison. After negotiating with the judge and bribing a few guards, he ends up as Nelson’s cellmate, and here he pretends to be his friend, all in an attempt to give him the wrong advice on surviving life in prison.
Somehow, Nelson gets himself out of a numerous array of jams (even discovering that he's gay and meeting the love of his life, the gang leader Barry) and reaches his one year parole hearing relatively unscathed, and actually the "top dog" in the prison. However, John won't allow his target to escape prison so easily: he drugs Nelson and writes "WHITE POWER" on his forehead. This leads to the parole board deciding that Nelson "needs" more time to be rehabilitated. Infuriated, Nelson brings John up on the act, who confesses to putting Nelson in jail and the two get embroiled in a fight. It's here that John regrets bunking with Nelson when he realizes Nelson has nothing to lose but his will to murder, and John is the target. After an ensuing brawl, the guards set up a death match between the two.
However, John and Nelson secretly conspire and inject each other with a coma-inducing drug. The guards and prisoners believe that they are dead and bury the duo outside in the graveyard. Barry, who has been let out on parole, digs the two up and they are free, and Nelson and Barry become life partners. One year later, the two same-sex sweethearts set up a winery where a critic is about to fail their wine when John shows up and forces the critic to give them a good review.
[edit] DVD
The movie was released on DVD March 6, 2007. [2]
DVD Features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Ending
Technical Specs:
- R Rated and Unrated Versions
- 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Track
[edit] Trivia
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- Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim can be seen briefly during a scene near the end of the movie.
- The scene in the beginning of the film where Nelson is speaking publicly to people and John is watching resembles the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle tries to assassinate Senator Palantine.
- In the scene where Nelson rushes to the pharmacy, the Korean pharmacist and his wife were actually speaking Tagalog.
- The ambient score features beatboxes by Rahzel, an influential beatboxer.
- The alternate ending features John and Nelson IV talking to each other on the phone as John wants to borrow money from Nelson to convert into pesos and shows John entering prison at Mexico rather than vacationing after calling Nelson. The cemetery scene shows that John and Nelson still hate each other. Due to test screenings, audiences prefer John and Nelson to be friends rather than rivals.
- The alternate opening features a scene where an officer warns the audience about the film not being a typical comedy because of the prison theme.
- This film has a few cameo appearances by Chicago hiphop producer & recording artist Rip.
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