Terminal Island is as hard-hitting a prison picture as has ever been made. In a science-fictional future, an island is conscripted as the ultimate maximum security prison: once sentenced, male or female, you are left to fend for your life on the terrain of the lawless.
Ena Hartman plays a new young black convict dumped on the beach, and shown the ropes by
Phyllis Davis and
Tom Selleck. Can she team up with fellow freedom-minded types to stick a wrench into the criminal patriarchal hegemony?
Terminal Island is
Utopia rewritten by
J.G. Ballard.
