This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. "Starred Up" is a film that may break your heart as it makes your stomach boil. A 19-year-old named Eric is transferred from a young offenders ...
It both helps and hurts that British filmmaker David Mackenzie's riveting prison drama was written by Jonathan Asser, a prison therapist. On the one hand, the story feels directly spun from the ...