The life of Frances, a smart woman, who after killing her abusive husband goes to prison, has been turned upside down, when she organizes a strike against an organization that exploits them.
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will.
FilmStew.com
December 15, 2003
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning.
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals.
New York Times
October 09, 2003
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation.
E! Online
August 29, 2003
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock.
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections.
