Dog Pound (2010) on Netflix
At a juvenile detention center in Montana called Enola Vale, Butch, Davis and Angel begin their sentences. Butch, jailed for blinding a guard, will not let anyone mess with him.
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Plot summary
Butch, Davis and Angel are teenagers who arrive at Enola Vale, a youth correctional center in Montana, to serve their sentences. Officer Sands handles their intake and puts his questions to Butch, who is doing time for blinding a guard. Goodyear, a tough but fair officer, tells the newcomers that following the rules and serving their time without trouble is the way to earn another chance. Butch tries to keep to the rules at first, but Banks, the chief bully, and his allies Eckersley and Loony attack him and his friends. Butch refuses to give the staff their names, and he is placed in solitary confinement.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dog Pound (2010)
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- Chapiron, a French director, made Dog Pound as his first English-language feature, and it won him the Best New Narrative Filmmaker award at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
- Dog Pound is a Canadian remake of Scum, the British film from 1979 set inside a borstal, the old name for a youth detention prison.
- Dog Pound is the only film in Kim Chapiron's career to go straight to video, yet it has since built a cult following among viewers.
