![]() ![]() However, when Brownie eats food made by Treasure's new Asian cellmate (Emily Kuroda), she proposes that the new inmate should live near her.īrownie mocks Kit when she sees Kit reading Nazi literature. Treasure suggested that she should be reassigned cells to be closer to the family and Brownie does nothing to make that happen. Brownie tattoos the same ankh she has on Treasure's arm. Meanwhile, Leisha is released from prison and Shadow admits that she wished she had never told Treasure about Brownie. Later, Brownie shoves a fork into Kit's thigh when Kit fails to bring in a certain amount of money from selling drugs. ![]() She admits, "I failed you." Treasure cries on her shoulder.Īs Treasure becomes a part of Brownie's prison family, Kit informs her that Brownie taught her how to survive in prison and demands that she sells drugs. Once back in the general population, Brownie meets with Treasure alone and states that she did not know about her because she was taken away at birth. While confined, Brownie speaks through a wall telling Treasure that they should meet once she is released. A fight breaks out between Treasure and Kit that results in both being placed in solitary confinement. Kit ( Rain Phoenix), Brownie's main daughter, chides the woman for not meeting her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations. Treasure is playing cards with Leisha and Shadow when she begins flirting with an inmate named Sugar (Patrice Fisher). Brownie asks the daughters to leave and yells at Treasure, stating it is her own fault she is in jail. Brownie's "daughters" protest that the photograph is not of Brownie. Back in the cells, Treasure approaches Brownie around her "prison family." She pulls out a photo of a woman and says to Brownie that she is her mother and her reason for being in prison. Brownie knocks a player down, injuring her, and demands that another person take her place. I ain't about no Brownie." Later, Shadow points Brownie out to her on the basketball court. When Treasure asks about Brownie, Leisha responds, "I'm about getting up out of here. She meets new inmates, such as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring rapper, and Doodle ( Ella Joyce), a religious, homophobic woman who is involved with a male correctional officer. In the new prison, she reunites with an old friend Shadow (LaTanya Hagans). Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie ( Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, so she purposely gets into trouble in order to be transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet her. In a 2004 issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with actual female inmates to produce the script. Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., helped to produce it. The story primarily concerns African-American lesbians in prison. Stranger Inside is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by Cheryl Dunye that premiered on cable television in 2001. ![]()
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