Sing Sing

WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at this Oscar nominated movie based on a real story.

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Episode Transcript

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This is now streaming with Jeordan. The world expects brothers
like you and I to walk in with that head
is held down now once you got to walk in
like a king. Every figure show I'm Divine. Nine Smart
finally caught up with a film called Sing Sing Oscar
nominated in several categories in one terrific movie. A prison

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picture based on a true story. It's about an inspirational
theater program designed to rehabilitate prisoners by introducing them to
theater in the arts. At the center of the story
is Coleman Domingo, imprisoned in Sing Sing for a crime
he did not commit. With him a cast of non
actors playing versions of themselves. These are men who were
formally in prison and due to RTA or rehabilitation through

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the arts, made it to the outside to become respectable citizens.
By no means is this a typical prison picture. The
focus is on the men behind prison walls, their psychological
and emotional needs saved by theater. The film is called
Sing Sing, and that's now streaming with Jordan. W Z
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