MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neema Barnette
Genres: Drama
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Television director Neema_Barnette directs the forceful drama Civil Brand, based on a story by Preston A. Whitmore II. Shot with a micro-budget of 500,000 dollars, the film stars confrontational rap and hip-hop artists Mos_Def, MC Lyte, and Da_Brat. The story concerns a women's prison that exploits its largely African-American inmate population as cheap labor to manufacture products for a corporation. Mostly incarcerated due to domestic violence situations, the inmates also face sexual abuse as the hands of the prison staff, headed by Captain Deese (Clifton_Powell) and Warden Nelson (Reed McCants). Accused of murder, Frances Shepard (Lisa_Rae) joins forces with inmates Little Momma (Lark_Voorhies), Wet (Monica_Calhoun), and Nikki Barnes (N'Bushe Wright), as well as law student Michael (Mos_Def), in order to start an uprising. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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