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Under Lock & Key

Under Lock & Key

Released Apr 01st, 1995
Running Time 93
Director Henry Charr
Company Imperial Entertainment
Cast Barbara Niven, Wendi Westbrook
Critical Rating Not Yet Rated
Genre Alternative

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With nudity galore and a spiraling descent into a harebrained confusion of an almost Kantian nature, Under Lock & Key is perfect late night six-pack adult entertainment. As a hybrid babes-in-prison/drug kingpin/karate flick, the viewer is ultimately left too stunned and/or aroused (a potent state of mind once exclusive to laboratory mice) to notice that the plot is careening around corners like a runaway ambulance.

Fresh from the William Shatner School Of Acting, lithe Wendi Westbrook plays an FBI plant sent undercover to a women's prison where inmate Barbara Niven has sequestered "the goods" on her drug-dealing boyfriend (K. Phillip Anthony, doing a limp Manuel Noriega impersonation).

"You know the routine," snarls a butch-but-beautiful security guard in one of the many gratuitous strip searches – "spread 'em!" We all know the routine, but since the con-ettes in this particular penitentiary look like they've just stepped out of a Penthouse layout, sleep side by side in the nude, enjoy R-rated conjugal visits and shower more frequently than the L.A. Dodgers during spring training, it's a palatable routine to swallow.

With a few well-placed karate kicks, Westbrook saves Niven's butt from a rival's advances, and the girls bond like Super Glue on a hard hat. But before Niven can spill the beans she's murdered by one of Anthony's henchwomen. From this point forward the film takes a giddy slide into loopy logic as Anthony, who was never aware of Westbrook's presence before, winds up kidnapping her kid for "protection" insurance.

Then, Westbrook escapes and teams up not only with the security guard but also with her fashion model friend, forming an ersatz brainless 'n braless Charlie's Angels team, who set out to infiltrate Anthony's hideout, kick some butt and deliver the most ludicrous action dialogue since Rudy Ray Moore's retirement. Did we neglect to mention that the drug dealer poses as a world-famous fashion designer, and that his hideout happens to be a dry goods warehouse located right next door to his pool? It just gets better from there! Under Lock & Key should face little competition as a favorite Joe Bob Brigg's Drive In pick. Pop open a Bud, break out the corn nuts and enjoy!



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