Cellmates

Story

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.

Director

Jesse Baget

Writers

Jesse Baget, Stefania Moscato

Language

English

Release date

1 June 2012

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Tom Sizemore

  Leroy Lowe

• 

  Stacy Keach

  Warden Merville

• 

  Kevin Farley

  Bubba

• 

  Héctor Jiménez

  Emilio

• 

  Olga Segura-Gall

  Madalena

• Bob Rickard

  Judge

• Rock Williams

  Prison Guard

• Tom Gulager

  Prison Guard

• Kaj Sturdivant

  Prison Guard