Cellmates (2012): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2012, Cellmates is a comedy and drama film directed by Jesse Baget, running about 85 minutes.

What it’s about. Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.

Who’s in it. Cellmates stars Tom Sizemore as Leroy Lowe, Stacy Keach as Warden Merville, Kevin Farley as Bubba and Héctor Jiménez as Emilio, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.3/10, Cellmates has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on YouTube TV and Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Cellmates page.

If you liked it. Fans of Cellmates tend to enjoy Forrest Gump, Parasite, Life Is Beautiful and Fight Club.