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Let's Go to Prison
Promotional poster for Let's Go to Prison
Directed by	Bob Odenkirk
Produced by	Marc Abraham Matt Berenson Paul Young
Written by	Ben Garant Thomas Lennon Michael Patrick Jann
Starring	Will Arnett Dax Shepard Michael Hitchcock Chi McBride David Koechner
Music by	Alan Elliott
Cinematography	Ramsey Nickell
Editing by	Eric L. Beason Denis Thorlaksen
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	November 17, 2006
Language	English
Budget	$4 million [1]
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Let's Go to Prison is a dark American comedy that was released in theatres November 17, 2006, staring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett and Chi McBride, and directed by Bob Odenkirk.

The movie was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire.

John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life in prison, thanks to Judge Nelson Biederman III, who has been giving him hard sentences ever since he stole a car at the age of nine. Now he wants revenge, but finds that the judge died an all too peaceful death three days previous to John’s release from prison.

He turns his attention to Nelson Biederman III’s obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett). John manages to get Nelson convicted on a trumped-up robbery charge and to ensure that he gets “the full treatment”, John decides to join him in prison by committing a crime that he knew he'd never get away with.

After negotiating with the judge and bribing a few guards, he ends up as Nelson’s cellmate, and here he pretends to be his friend, all in an attempt to give him the wrong advice on surviving life in prison.

Somehow, Nelson gets himself out of a numerous array of jams and reaches his one year parole hearing relatively unscathed. However, John won't allow his target to escape prison so easily: while Nelson is asleep he writes "WHITEPOWER" on his forehead. This leads to the parole board deciding that Nelson "needs" more time to be rehabilitated. Infuriated, Nelson brings John up on the act and John explains why he is torturing Nelson. After an ensuing brawl,the guards set up a death-match for the two.

But, thy secretly conspire and inject each other with a coma-inducing drug. The guards and prisoners believe that they are dead and bury the pair outside the cemetary. A friend on the outside digs the two up and they are free.

• Bob Odenkirk was a little surprised that girls loved the movie because of Nelson and Barry’s romance. Especially Barry always got a high score from the female test audience.
• Will Arnett was chosen for the role as Nelson after one of the producers had seen him on Arrested Development, in an episode in which his character is sent to prison.
• The movie originally had a different ending, in which Nelson and Barry lived together in a big mansion and got a call from John, who had somehow ended up in a Mexican prison. He begged for help, but they just hung up on him. The ending was changed because the test audience didn’t see John as a bad guy, and wanted him to have a happy ending too.
• Adult Swim stars and friends of Odenkirk Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim make their first big screen appearances as wine-tasters.
• Many of the scenes were shot at Joliet Correctional Facility in Illinois, the same prison from The Blues Brothers and Prison Break.
• When Lyshitski is watching the memorial given by Biederman, the way he is dressed is a reference to Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.

The movie was released on DVD March 6 2007. [2]

DVD Features:

• Deleted Scenes
• Alternate Ending

Technical Specs:

• R Rated and Unrated Versions
• 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Track

• Let's Go to Prison at the Internet Movie Database
• Let's Go to Prison at Rotten Tomatoes