Stir

1980
1h 41m

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When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.

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6.8/10

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- 11 nominations total

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Trivia
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.

Crazy credits
Before the end credits: "The writer of this film was a prisoner in Bathurst Jail when rioting prisoners gutted the jail in February 1974. In writing the screenplay he drew on his own prison experiences and the findings of the enquiries into the Attica and Bathurst riots."

Connections
Featured in The Hidden History of Homosexual Australia (2005)

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6/10

Prison films are always a tough watch, but the acting makes this worthwhile

This film is a powerful indictment of the brutality of the Australian prison system in the 1970s, where prisoners were regularly savagely beaten in order to instil fear into the prisoners.

Bryan Brown gives another outstanding performance as 'China' Jackson, a man who has gone out on a limb to condemn the system in a television expose, but who finds himself back in the same jail, and must try to survive amidst the violence of an unfair and uncaring system.

Max Phipps is also impressive as a warder who feels guilty about how they treat the prisoners, but who fears what would happen if the prisoners were not cowed by fear.

The film is not an easy watch at times, and there is not a woman to be seen in the film, but it is a convincing argument for prison reform.