Civil Brand
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Neema Barnette
Lisaraye Mccoy
N'bushe Wright
Yasiin Bey
Da Brat
Monica Calhoun
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
"Welcome to the plantation, sister Frances." With those words, Frances Shepherd, a beautiful young mother and nurse, is greeted upon her arrival at Whitehead Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women. Surrounded by hardened repeat offenders, this meek woman--incarcerated for killing her abusive husband--has just joined the ranks of one of the most lucrative businesses in America: the prison industrial complex. With every eye-opening day that passes, with every cruelty leveled against Shepherd and her fellow inmates, it becomes more and more obvious that profit--not rehabilitation--is the goal at Whitehead. After a series of pivotal events force the women to rise up against the injustices at the penitentiary, they band together against the "new plantation" workplace that harvests human labor for profit. But the odds are stacked against them.
Director
Neema Barnette
Cast
Lisaraye Mccoy
N'bushe Wright
Yasiin Bey
Da Brat
Monica Calhoun
Clifton Powell
Reed Mccants
Tichina Arnold
Lark Voorhies
Mc Lyte
Robert Lynn
Scott Moore
Crew
Saeed Adyani
Robert Althoff
Mark Amin
Lin Que Ayoung
William K. Baker
William Baker
Zene Baker
John W Barbee
Neema Barnette
Ysaye M Barnwell
Edward C Bartell
Sheila Bartlett
James Basile
David Beatty
Donna Beltz
Chris Bennet
Marie R Blevins
Scotty L Blevins
Stanley Bogest
Fontella Boone
Deborah Bowden
Tim Bowen
Da Brat
Da Brat
Garnett Burk
Kristian Burrows
Dorinda Carey
Captain Carley
Tom Carson
Tom Carson
Claude B Cave
Jeff Clanagan
Jeff Clanagan
Chantay Clark
Ryan Clemons
Salvatore Coniglio
Mikale Cook
Kemi Cooks
Monica Cooper
Richard N Cooper
Gregory Corbett
Olu Dara
Olu Dara
Milk Dee
Jim Dickman
Reginald Donaldson
Reginald Donaldson
Charles Dowell
Paula Dusman
Tommy Estridge
Michael Figlio
Gregory L. Freeman
Gregory L. Freeman
John Frick
Chet Frist
Jeff Gaffin
Judy Gaffin
Nikki Giovacchini
Stefanie Girard
Bill Golden
Diane Greco
John Guss
Chad Habbetz
Allan D Hamilton
Sandra Hamilton
Brian R Harman
J Michael Haynes
Joel C. High
Kyle Hudson
Clay Humphrey
Merissa Ide
Christopher C Jones
Dean Jones
Richard Jordan
Horst Jung
Kelly Kiernan
Ken King
Jerry D Knight
Scott C Kolden
Lisa Kramer
Bruce Laffey
Appolos Laurient
Nikki Lawder
Betty Lee
Jordan Leibert
Wayne Levin
Joyce Lewis
Joyce Lewis
Joyce Lewis
Joyce Lewis
Anna M Little
Stevie Lockett
Stevie Lockett
Shane Lovell
Neb Luv
Neb Luv
Mc Lyte
Mc Lyte
Daniel Macarthur
Sam Mahoney
John Marshall
Joseph May
Laurie May
Richard Mazzochi
Ah'keisha Mccants
Ah'keisha Mccants
Ah'keisha Mccants
Reed Mccants
Kimberly D Mccray
Annie Mceveety
Annette Mcgraw
Robert Melnik
Curtis A. Miller
Frank Moshier
Frank Moshier
Yuri Neyman
Ray O'reilly
Kimberly Osterling
Donna Parker
Jesse Parker
Rhonda Parman
James L Pearson
Carl Pedregal
Carl Pedregal
Edward J Pei
Aaron Pittman
Nick Plantico
Nick Plantico
Patia Prouty
Eugene Purcell
Christopher J Pyles
Chephren Rasika
Elena Redmon
Sam Rhymes
Emily Rice
Sacha Riviere
Sacha Riviere
Cinnamon Roberts
Kirk Robinson
Kimberly A Rosen
Debby Rudy
David Ryker
Pam Satterfield
David Schneider
Jackson Schwartz
Steve Sheridan
Donna Sloan
Larry Smith
Dona Spangler
Jason Speck
Darin Spillman
Darryl St Juste
Kevin Stallings
Mary Stankiewicz
Manning Tillman
Butch Turner
Jennifer Tyler
Stephanie Urcheck
Charlyn Ware
Mike Weezner
Angie Wells
David John West
David John West
David John West
Lisa Westin
Preston A. Whitmore
Preston A. Whitmore
Don Wilkerson
Cyndi Williams
Hannah Williams
Wendy Wilmoth
Carlos Wilson
Louis Wilson
Rais Wilson
Ricardo A Wilson
Wilfredo R Wilson
Douglas Wiltse
Queline Young
Queline Young
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Expanded Release in United States October 10, 2003
Limited Release in United States August 29, 2003
Released in United States August 2002
Released in United States January 2003
Released in United States November 2002
Released in United States on Video January 27, 2004
Released in United States Summer August 29, 2003
Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival August 7-11, 2002.
Mandalay Proliance is a new label formed by Mandalay Sports Entertainment and Trimark Pictures which is slated to produce three to five films annually for the urban market.
Released in United States January 2003 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) January 16-26, 2003.)
Released in United States on Video January 27, 2004
Released in United States August 2002 (Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival August 7-11, 2002.)
Limited Release in United States August 29, 2003
Released in United States Summer August 29, 2003
Expanded Release in United States October 10, 2003
Released in United States November 2002 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (American Directions) November 7-17, 2002.)