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Jailbreakers is a 1994 film by William Friedkin (director of such classics as The Exorcist, To Live and Die In LA, and more recently, Killer Joe). Though its production values are suggestive of a made for TV movie, the film elucidates many red pill truths in a way that is both instructional and humorous.

The story follows Angel (a young Shannon Doherty), a popular high school cheerleader on the verge of her sweet 16 (right on time) as she falls under the spell of badboy archetype Tony. Tony is a handsome high school dropout who rides a motorcycle, chain smokes, and funds his meandering lifestyle through small time crime. What more could a girl want?

"You're not like the boys at school," Angel says, as Tony wastes no time physically escalating their relationship, and on her parents' porch no less. Angel's father, a war veteran turned yuppie businessman, walks in on their makeout session and after an awkward introduction makes his disapproval abundantly clear, inadvertently skyrocketing the thug's value in his daughter's eyes.

Having stolen a vintage thunderbird, Tony picks up Angel promising an "adventure" and robs a diner before leaving town. Angel walks in on the robbery, to which Tony easily persuades her into becoming an accomplice. Deliriously turned on by the element of danger this young man represents, Angel then goads him into robbing a jewelry store, suggesting not so subtly that he may be rewarded with sex in return. Tony ungracefully does so by shattering the display window and grabbing as many necklaces as he can. The scene then cuts to Angel moaning behind the wheel as Tony performs cunnilingus on her. Their elation is cut short by cop lights in the rear view and a subsequent arrest. Naturally, Tony shoulders the burden for everything, Angel being perceived as the innocent victim of a delinquent youth by her parents and the authorities. However, she finds that she has become a pariah among her fellow students, and her father's business contacts begin dropping off as a result of his daughter's now sordid reputation.

The family relocates against Angel's will and starts life over in another faceless suburban community, wherein Angel easily rises to the top of the high school social circle. She begins dating a local star athlete who is at the same time an over the top beta male, providing a hilarious contrast to her former badboy lover that plays like something that Roissy In DC would write and direct if he were an amateur filmmaker.

I won't spoil the rest of the film, but I will say that the lovebirds inevitably reunite as Angel's disgust with her new beau's betatude becomes unbearable. Predictably, he becomes violent and by the time bodies start piling up Angel has her first moment of clarity, finally perceiving that she may be in over her head.

Jailbirds is currently available to watch instantly on Netflix. The film covers some of the same territory as classics such as Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands, but does so in a more comical and blatantly red pill manner. The cheese factor is indeed high, but I imagine that any member of this forum would derive some value from its hour and 15 minutes.

As an aside, a young Adrien Brody hams it up as Tony's appropriately-named sidekick, "Skinny."