Scottish director David Mackenzie’s award-winning gritty prison drama STARRED UP, which stars Jack O’Connell (“Skins”, Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Unbroken), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines), and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) will be released in the US by Tribeca Film in 2014. 

STARRED UP, which premiered earlier this year at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival and 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, is about ultra-violent 19-year-old Eric (O’Connell), who is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father (Mendelsohn). As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past the breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist (Friend), who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

Fox Searchlight will release the film in the U.K. in the spring of 2014. 

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