Jailbait

You may not be aware of it unless you've done a little time, but prison's a bitch and if you don't watch your back, a bitch is exactly what you'll become. That seems to be the lesson to be learned from this well acted but only intermittently compelling examination of how power plays out behind bars. The fresh meat of the title is Randy (Michael Pitt), a young, three-time loser who's sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security prison for painting an obscenity on a neighbor's car. Randy's new cellmate, Jake (playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis), won't be going anywhere any time soon either: He's looking at life with no chance of parole for slitting his new bride's throat a...