Movie Reviews

Leroy Lowe (Tom Sizemore) is a Klan bigwig in the 70s who gets convicted to three years in a prison work farm for tax evasion. Once there he meets warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Lowe and crazy about potatoes. Merville picks Emilio Ortiz, a Mexican worker in prison for fighting for labor rights, to be Lowe’s cellmate. Emilio turns out to be a real talker and it doesn’t take long for him to start turning Lowe away from his bigotry. Well, there’s that and the sexy Mexican maid Madalena.

If you already find the story hard to believe, try to picture Tom Sizemore as the romantic lead in a movie… let me help you there. It doesn’t work. “Cellmates” may only last for an hour and a half but it sure felt like 25 to life thanks to all the overacting and annoying redneck dialogues!