Let's Go to Prison (2006)

Release date: 2006-11-17
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Production Co: Carsey-Werner Company, Strike Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: 6.0/10
Length: 1h 24min

Storyline

John Lyshitski, a young man who has been in prison more often than he has not over the entire course of his life, has just been released from what was his third prison sentence. In all three cases, he was sentenced by Judge Nelson Biederman III. As such, John makes it his mission to destroy the judge's life. Unable to do so, John does the next best thing: destroy the life of the judge's privileged thirty year old son, Nelson Biederman IV. In that new mission, John ends up not having to do anything as certain people are out to get Nelson IV, who in the process receives a 3 to 5 year prison sentence. Nelson IV's incarceration should be enough for John, who knows that someone like Nelson IV, ill-equipped mentally for a life behind bars, is easy prey to get beaten, raped and/or killed in prison. But John wants to witness and be at least a small part in Nelson IV's suffering. John's plan is to get busted, charged, and convicted for some crime, and end up in the same prison as Nelson IV's ...

Plot Keywords

body bag, syringe, stabbing, solitary confinement, singing, shower room, scene during end credits, restroom, racism, prison, prison bus, pen pal, neo nazi, tai chi, telephone booth, trial, blowing smoke in someone's face, blood, beating, asthma inhaler

Short Review

Shepard's character periodically rattles off damning statistics about America's booming prison industry, but most of the gags are of the don't-drop-the-soap variety.