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Let's Go to Prison

Let's Go to Prison

Comedy · Crime · 2006

When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

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Let's Go to Prison

“Welcome to the slammer.”

2006 Comedy · Crime 1h 29m

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6.0 / 10

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When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Bob Odenkirk

Written by

Robert Ben Garant · Thomas Lennon · Michael Patrick Jann

Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard

John Lyshitski

Will Arnett

Will Arnett

Nelson Biederman IV

Chi McBride

Chi McBride

Barry

David Koechner

David Koechner

Shanahan

Dylan Baker

Dylan Baker

Warden

Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

Lynard

M

Miguel Nino

Jesus

Court is in session

Put Let's Go to Prison on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.