Locked Up

Locked Up

Love behind bars

200584 min4.9 / 10

A dark, intimate drama about two men forging a romantic bond amid the violence and hostility of prison, where their love becomes both refuge and target.

Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals and inmates in their attempts to become a loving couple.

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