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Belly of the Beast
Directed by
Erika Cohn
TV-14
2020
82m
Documentary
,
Drama
7.3
100%
83%
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When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
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Cast of Belly of the Beast
Kelly Dillon
Cynthia Chandler
Corey Johnson
Courtney Hooks
Belly of the Beast Ratings & Reviews
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Inside the belly of documentarian Erika Cohn's Beast lurks a monstrosity more appalling than horror fiction.
Common Sense Media
Tara McNamara
Mature themes, strong language in prison eugenics docu.
Austin Chronicle
Sarah Marloff
Visually, the first half of the film provides eye-catching contrasts - expansive green fields and semi-trucks, bright days and dark early mornings, inside versus outside.
The Movie Cricket
Sean P. Means
Tackles a tough subject - the forced sterilization of women inmates at a California prison - with journalistic fire and sensitive artistry.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
At once a thrilling legal drama and heartbreaking depiction of devastating human rights violations that you can't imagine happening in the 21st century.
New York Times
Lovia Gyarkye
"Belly of the Beast" does not reach for happy endings and is most absorbing in its thesis, which makes the stakes of this battle against human rights violations loud and clear.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
Cohn does a great job of highlighted a horrendous injustice, demonstrating how this exploitation takes place and following the brave women campaigning for change.
World Socialist Web Site
Joanne Laurier
The 82-minute film sheds light on the brutality of mass incarceration, a symptom of the vast social inequality in America.
PopMatters
Chris Barsanti
Belly of the Beast is an effective introduction to a current issue many viewers would imagine was consigned to the past.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Incredibly, such programs in the state were perfectly legal until 1979...
KDHX (St. Louis)
Martha K. Baker
No one should watch this without becoming exercised over racist exploitation of eugenics.
Hyperallergic
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Demonstrates how exclusionary our social myths around motherhood and giving birth are.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Thorough and incisive, this is a documentary which restrains its anger to focus on the evidence, but many viewers will likely find it harder to hold back. For those who haven't seen this side of the US before, it will be particularly unsettling.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Wade Major
In terms of horrifying us? Absolutely, it's a very effective film, but it leaves a crucial question unanswered.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
One of the oddest sights in this film, although perhaps not so odd if you have much experience with the power hierarchies in American medicine, was that of OB-GYNs defending the practice of surgical sterilization of female prisoners...
Midwest Film Journal
Evan Dossey
A harrowing documentary about the practice of forced sterilization.
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