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- The movie is based on a real-life manual for adjusting to life behind bars.
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Let's Go to Prison is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Bob Odenkirk and starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, and Chi McBride. The film was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire. It was released in theaters on November 17, 2006.
- The Movie Is Based on A Real-Life Manual For Adjusting to Life Behind Bars.
- The Movie Was Filmed Inside A Real Prison.
- Despite Its 2006 Release, The Movie Is Set Sometime Before 2005.
- A Sunday Morning Comics Staple Makes A Cameo.
- The Film Has An Alternate Ending.
Jim Hogshire’s 1994 non-fiction book You Are Going to Prison , which offers advice to first-time prisoners, inspired the film.
Rossmore State Penitentiary is actually the Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois, which closed down as a functioning prison in 2002. The Joliet Correction Center can also be seen The Blues Brothers and the first season of Prison Break .
The can of Fresca, Nelson’s beloved soda, used in the film features an out-of-date design. The brand was given a complete redesign in 2005, meaning Let’s Go to Prison takes place sometime before then.
The card that Nelson receives from the white supremacists features the long-running comic strip character Ziggy.
In it, John, who is about to be sent back to prison, calls Nelson from Tijuana to ask him to post his bail. Nelson hangs up in order to live happily ever after with Barry in their mansion together.
- Sean Hutchinson
Let's Go to Prison: Directed by Bob Odenkirk. With Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner. When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Bob Odenkirk
- 2006-11-17
In this outrageous and very adult comedy, a small-time career criminal (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life in prison, sentenced each time by the same hard-ass judge. Suddenly free, he sets out to take revenge on the judge, only to learn that the old man has died.
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- Michael Shannon
- Bob Odenkirk
The movie was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire. Since John Lyshitski (Shepard) was eight, he's been in and out of prison, all because of one man—Judge Nelson Biederman III.
John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) is a young guy who's spent most of his life in prison, blaming the judge who continuously sent him them, he hatches his plan for revenge. But he dies three days before he gets free of prison, so John decides to go after the judge's son, Nelson (Will Arnet of brilliant "Arrested Development" fame) John's plan is to ...
Nov 17, 2006 · Let's Go to Prison is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Bob Odenkirk and starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, and Chi McBride. The film was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire.
