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Dramatic Escape (2015)
Powerful, Real, Fascinating
This film has relevance well beyond prison issues. It's an engaging film about what is possible when people with very difficult pasts are treated with respect, exposed to the arts and given a chance to express themselves and to work as a team towards a positive goal. The film probes the lives of several prisoners in Sing Sing maximum security prison, witnessing their difficulties and successes as they uncover emotions that have been buried, or sometimes never before identified. It captures the dynamic between the men as they struggle to create together and to grapple with behaviors that brought them to prison. There are funny and heartbreaking moments, all inside the walls of this historic, dangerous, and still very active prison. I highly recommend this film to anyone interested in humans.