Edward Bunker

When first time felon Ron Decker is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life.

When first time felon Ron Decker is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life.

The Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests take on the roles of the James, Young, Miller, and Ford brothers in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the robbery Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) finds himself kicked out of the gang when his brothers Clell (Randy Quaid) and Jesse James (James Keach) mutually agree to hand over his share of the money and tell him to leave because of his unnecessary killing during the robbery. The rest of the gang decides to split up for awhile. Cole Younger (David Carradine) travels to Texas with his prostitute girlfriend Belle Starr (Pamela Reed) while the James boys return to their wives and farms. The gang reunites after the brief respite to rob a well-stocked bank in Northfield, Minnesota. The robbery is a disaster and most of the gang ends up either wounded or dying. The James boys are the only ones not seriously hurt, and escaping while they can, they leave the rest of the gang behind. After the James boys leave, the remnants of the gang are captured. But trailing the Jameses is a relentless posse. Frank and Jesse manage to keep one step ahead until the Ford brothers (Christopher Guest and Nicholas Guest) make a deal with the Pinkerton detectives trailing the outlaws.

When first time felon Ron Decker (Edward Furlong; American History X, T2: Judgement Day) is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life. After witnessing a riot, Ron is soon taken under the wing of Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe; Platoon, The English Patient), a veteran convict who has manipulated the system to his every advantage, earning the respect of the toughest cons and the favor of the crooked guards. But sometimes even respect in a community of convicts can hold you prisoner. Now, Ron will soon discover that life in the Animal Factory is not about rehabilitation, it’s about survival.

After receiving a long prison sentence for drug trafficking, Ron Decker must learn to cope with life on the inside. Luckily, he befriends Earl Copen, an ex-gang leader with considerable influence among the other inmates.

When first time felon Ron Decker is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life and survival.

When first time felon Ron Decker is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life and survival.

Animal Factory -- When first time felon Ron Decker is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life and survival.

When first time felon Ron Decker (Edward Furlong; American History X, T2: Judgement Day) is sentenced to two years in a decaying prison, he is quickly introduced to a world where violence is the only way of life. After witnessing a riot, Ron is soon taken under the wing of Earl Copen, a veteran convict who has manipulated the system to his every advantage, earning the respect of the toughest cons and the favor of the crooked guards. But sometimes even respect in a community of convicts can hold you prisoner.

Harvey Keitel stars as Vernon Dabney, the volatile patriarch of a poor family in Tidewater, Virginia. Proud descendants of aristocratic plantation owners, the Dabneys have fallen on hard times. Now, in the depths of the Great Depression, an angry and desperate Dabney must bootleg liquor to provide for his wife, Trixie (Andie MacDowell), and their seven children. One fateful summer day in 1935, Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), a 99-year-old former slave, appears on the Dabneys' doorstep. He has walked from Alabama in order to spend his last days, and be buried, on the old Dabney plantation where he was born into slavery. Trixie and the kids fall instantly for Shadrach's charm; Vernon will struggle with his own entrenched beliefs before being able to fulfill Shadrach's dying wishes with honor and dignity.

Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell star in this poignant drama about family, heritage and friendshipset on a dilapidated Southern plantation during the Great Depression. Based on a short story by William Styron.

Struggling to feed their teeming brood and keep beer in the icebox as the country endures the Great Depression, the Dabneys have not forgotten that their run-down farm once numbered among the South's richest tobacco plantations. Still, they never expected the obligations of their ancestors to become their own - until the arrival of an aged black man. He has walked all the way from Alabama with little more than the clothes on his back, a stick in his hand, and one last wish in his heart.