"The Naked Cage" is a textbook anthology of "Women-In-Prison Drama" cliches (innocent heroine, sadistic warden, lesbianism, catfights, stabbings, riots, etc.). Watching it, you feel as if you're wallowing in a cesspool, and the fact that leading actress Shari Shattuck is not believable for a minute certainly doesn't help matters. At least Christina Whitaker is spirited and fun as the "wild" Rita. (*1/2)

Nothing like a big hair prison girl film. Michelle (Shari Shattuck) is wrongfully convicted and is forced to three years (90 minutes real time) to be in a woman's prison with a lesbian warden, raping guards, and girl gangs. There are better prison girl films out there. This is also part of a dvd multi-pack.

Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, nudity (Shari Shattuck, Lisa London, Valerie McIntosh, Stacey Shaffer, Angel Tompkins, Christina Whitaker, Aude Charles

A young woman (Shari Shattuck) is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

When you sit down to watch a women in prison movie, you already expect it to be exploitation all the way, with gratuitous nudity and very likely a girl-on-girl sex scene or two. While this film certainly does that, it is a little less blatant and for that it maybe deserves a little credit.

Not that this is good. The basic plot point is that a woman kidnapped at a bank gets sent to prison for the robbery she had no part of. This really makes no sense, but because it jumps from the cops showing up directly to the prison, we never see how such bungling could occur.