Feature Presentation…MONDAY MOVIE MEME
found at The Bumbles Blog
This week’s movie topic is all about Women & Prison…We’ve covered prison movies, heists and jail breaks before, but we’ve never focused on the fairer sex and their portrayal in the prison system. Nicole wants to focus on women who are held captive or imprisoned during a film. I would broaden that scope to include women who hold roles as guards and captors. Share on your blog movies that feature female prisoners, guards, or those who are accused and on their way to the Big House.
The first movie that came to mind wasn’t one with a woman in prison, but she was in chains. In Black Snake Moan (2006) Christina Ricci spends most of the movie bound in chains dressed in not much more than her undies. Samuel L Jackson is the well intended captor.
Silence of the Lambs (1991) provides another visual of a captive woman, this one in a pit kept there by a crazy man (otherwise known as Detective Stottelemeyer).
Chicago (2002) is a movie with women in real prison. What drove them all to lives of crime? See for yourself.
And somehow Renee Zellweger ends up in prison again in Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason (2004). Only this time she’s in Thailand.
That’s all I’ve got. What about you?
Stacy's Books 
I loved Chicago and Bridget Jones’ Diary. I am too afraid to watch Silence of the Lambs.
Oh, you have to see it! Scary, but excellent.
I haven’t seen any of those movies! I don’t think I could take being chained like that, even if it was for a movie.
Especially in my undies!
Oh wow, Stacy, you did a much better job picking movies than I did!
All 3 are great ones for this theme. How I could forget Chicago is beyond me!
Great job & list!
It came to me late and then I couldn’t believe it had taken me so long!
That movie with Christin Ricci looks super creepy! I saw Chicago once! Great scene.
Creepy but interesting.
Silence of the Lambs absolutely terrified me!
As it should! 🙂
Oh just seeing the photo from Silence of the Lambs freaked me out. “it puts the lotion in the basket.”
I can hear his freaky voice now. Thanks for the disturbing dreams I’m bound to have 🙂
Ah – Chicago! I still haven’t seen it – given Andy’s adverse reactions to musicals – but hot girls in prison shouldn’t be that hard of a cell if you ask me.
The music is fun and Andy might enjoy the lack of clothing on the prisoners 🙂