Ron Decker (Edward Furlong), a soft faced 21 year old, doesn't belong in prison, but there he is -- convicted on a marijuana charge, tossed in with men who could eat him alive. Fortunately, he wins the attentions of Earl (Willem Dafoe), a veteran con who has mastered the Machiavellian intricacies of prison society.
Dafoe makes Earl a tough nut sociopath with an oxymoronic streak of restraint. He refuses to turn Ron into his ''punk,'' and the film pivots around this enigmatic grace note of civility in hell. Oddball cameo of the year: Mickey Rourke as a pumped up drag queen who's like Blanche DuBois crossed with Elmer Fudd.
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