In the Custody of Strangers
1982 · 1h 31m · Drama, TV Movie · United States of America · Rated 16 (DE)
His crime was a minor one. His sentence was a nightmare.
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
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Robert GreenwaldWritten by
Jennifer Miller6.1Smart score
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