Prison Song is a 2001 United States prison film about a boy brought up in group homes with a gift and passion for art. The film centers around a character named Elijah , who is an adolescent at the story’s outset. His mother is a hard-working woman who’s spent the last several years attending night school – with the eventual goal of becoming a lawyer. But given that she’s from a lower class area, she’s having a tough time finding employment as a legal secretary. Her fiance, Cee , a photographer and supporter of the family who has a genuine bond with Elijah... later is incarcerated after assaulting an officer who began harassing him on a street corner where he was working taking pictures of pedestirans that passed by. He ends up serving twenty-five to life term for having three consecutive charges. Later that night, Elijah finds himself incarcerated at a juvenile correctional facility for a prank played on a police officer. When his mother comes to get him and is told he could not be released, Elijah is taken from her with both trying their best to get to one another.
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| Release date: | April 27, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Darnell Martin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Jane Rosenthal |
| Screenplay by: | Darnell Martin, Q-Tip |