Product Details

• Actors: Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura Garcia
• Directors: Pablo Trapero
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002N7SX84
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,949 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Lion's Den (Leonera)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

After Julia is sent to the penitentiary for the murder of her lover, she gives birth to a son. Bringing up a child in prison is difficult. Her fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally; her mother Sofía, her opponent. One attempts to teach her how to be a mother to her child in the least appropriate place; the other wishes to take over rearing the child. The duel between Julia and her mother expresses the dilemma of what is better for the child, to be brought up next to his mother in prison, or without her, but in freedom.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dump your expectations. There are no stereotypes here., March 3, 2010

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Susan Stade-Bergstrom "Marvel Fan" (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lion's Den (Leonera) (DVD)

When I chose to buy Lion's Den after having seen only the trailer I was mostly interested in seeing another culture's take on the 'women behind bars' movie. I got way more than I expected. This is not the stereotypical story of a women's prison. In fact, it's not about the prison at all. It's about the women. They're all real people, no all black or all white characters. The plot is not cut and dried. The guards, the prisoners, the families, the lawyers all are very human and it's not always easy to decide whose side you should be on, despite how you feel. Things are done very differently than they would be in an American prison. But that's not the story. The story is about a woman in prison for a crime she may or may not have committed and her desperation to keep her son with her. It's tough, tender real story that will stay with you long after it's over.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hooked, March 19, 2010

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L. Stephen (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lion's Den (Leonera) (DVD)

This was such an intriguing film! It was very refreshing to see a film that wasn't cut and dried right and wrong. It was real and raw and realistic in the portral of the situation. Well acted, with emotions you could feel.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you're looking for something different, provocative, intense, this is for you, April 3, 2011

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Janet K. Bircheff (Fort Wayne, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lion's Den (Leonera) (DVD)

Young adults are vulnerable...they can be in the midst of dangerous situations, but be clueless until everything tumbles down like cinder blocks upon their head. The main character is a young women who loves a man who loves another man. One of the men ends up dead and the other critically wounded. Our young woman is convicted of the murder, imprisoned, and and at the same time, learns that she is pregnant. Estranged from her family, the father of her baby dead, she is alone in this nightmare. But the heart of the movie is how the woman finds a new kind of family in the culture of this women's prison--a unique prison because all of the women are mothers who are allowed to have their babies/toddlers with them. In their confinement,the women are family to each other. They help each other raise their children. They comfort each other in times of loss and grief. They turn to each other for love in the broadest sense. Our girl grows into a woman in prison. She is fiercely protective of her little son and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her "real" family comes to visit her, they have an agenda that does not include her. That's all I can say. See the movie to learn 'the rest of the story'.