Scared Straight / Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

Starring: Peter Falk & Danny Glover Director: Arnold Shapiro

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Stereo - English

Additional Release Material:

• Bonus Feature - 1. SCARED STRAIGHT! 20 YEARS LATER - Danny Glover, Host

Interactive Features:

• Scene Access
• Interactive Menus

Text/Photo Galleries:

• Biography - 1. Arnold Shapiro - 1. Writer/Director/Producer

Major Awards:

Academy Awards - Best Documentary Feature (1978)

Product Description:

In 1972, documentary filmmaker Arnold Shapiro brought 17 juvenile delinquents to a maximum security prison in New Jersey to spend a day with some of the most dangerous and hardened criminals behind bars. These life-sentence inmates gave the wayward teens a shockingly realistic, no-holds-barred account of the brutality of daily prison life, powerfully documented by Shapiro in his Oscar and Emmy-award winning film SCARED STRAIGHT. This DVD revisits the important and influential documentary that altered the course of the participants' lives as well as those of millions of other troubled teens in high schools across the country. Also included is the updated feature SCARED STRAIGHT! 20 YEARS LATER, which examines the lasting effects of the program by following up on the teens and inmates two decades after the experience.

Plot Keywords:

Criminals | Documentary | Prison | Prison / Prisoners | Teenage | Teenagers

Cast and Crew: