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Scared straight! : 20 years later

Title
Scared straight! : 20 years later / directed by Arnold Shapiro.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : Docurama : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Shapiro, Arnold, 1941-
  • Glover, Danny
  • Arnold Shapiro Productions, production company.
  • Paramount Stations Group, Inc., production company.
  • Docurama (Firm), publisher.
  • New Video Group, film distributor.
Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the prisoners to see how their lives have changed in the intervening decades.
Uniform Title
Scared straight!
Subject
  • State Prison, Rahway, N.J
  • East Jersey State Prison. Lifers' Group
  • Prisoners > New Jersey > Rahway > Attitudes
  • Juvenile delinquents > United States > Attitudes
  • Prison visits > New Jersey > Rahway
  • Juvenile delinquents > Rehabilitation > United States
Genre/Form
  • Documentary films.
  • Feature films.
Note
  • Title from container.
  • Originally produced for television in 1999.
  • A sequel of sorts to the documentary film Scared straight! (1978, 53 min.), which this film contains app. 43 min. of.
  • Special feature: filmmaker biography (Shapiro, 2 p.).
Credits (note)
  • Screenwriter, Arnold Shapiro ; producer, Arnold Shapiro ; cinematographers, Jim Arnold, William Moffitt ; editors, Sharon Rennert, Bob Niemack ; composers, John Thomas, Marie Maxwell ; an Arnold Shapiro production ; in association with Paramount Stations Group, Inc.
Audience (note)
  • Not rated
System Details (note)
  • DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Awards (note)
  • Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, 1979
Contents
Scared straight! 20 years later / directed by Arnold Shapiro.
ISBN
0767057554
LCCN
767685955833
OCLC
52778728
Title
Scared straight! : 20 years later / directed by Arnold Shapiro.
Imprint
[New York, N.Y.] : Docurama : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2003.
Edition
Standard format.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
System Details
DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Performer
Hosted by Danny Glover.
Credits
Screenwriter, Arnold Shapiro ; producer, Arnold Shapiro ; cinematographers, Jim Arnold, William Moffitt ; editors, Sharon Rennert, Bob Niemack ; composers, John Thomas, Marie Maxwell ; an Arnold Shapiro production ; in association with Paramount Stations Group, Inc.
Audience
Not rated Docurama.
Awards
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, 1979
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Added Author
Shapiro, Arnold, 1941- film director.
Glover, Danny, narrator.
Arnold Shapiro Productions, production company.
Paramount Stations Group, Inc., production company.
Docurama (Firm), publisher.
New Video Group, film distributor.
Added Title
Scared straight!
Other Standard Identifier
767685955833
Publisher No.
NVG-9558 Docurama
Branch Call Number
DVD 364.4 S
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