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Jailbirds (1991)

The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While manacled together, the ladies escape, driving each other cuckoo as they elude their captors. Apparently, CBS had so little faith in Jailbirds that the network hardly bothered to advertise the film went it premiered May 16, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Director(s):: Burt Brinckerhoff

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Synopsis of Jailbirds

The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While manacled together, the ladies escape, driving each other cuckoo as they elude their captors. Apparently, CBS had so little faith in Jailbirds that the network hardly bothered to advertise the film went it premiered May 16, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Complete Cast of Jailbirds

Phylicia Rashad - Janice Grant
Maria Arita - Kelli
Ritch Brinkley - Beetle
Wayne de Hart - Mel
Vernon Grote - Huge Patrolman
Grainger Hines - Jimmy Lee
Dennis Letts - Poppa
Ahmad Rashad - Larry Braddock
Suzanne Savoy - Grace
Jeanne Evans - Momma

Dyan Cannon - Rosie LaCroix
Joe Berryman - Wallace Crenshaw
Clyde Kusatsu - Kasaki
Dorothy Deavers - Woman
Anne Haney - Haydee
David Knell - Baxter
Dakin Matthews - Sheriff
T.E. Russell - Clemmons
Bethany Wright - Loretta
Spencer Prokop - Bernie

Director(s):: Burt Brinckerhoff

Producer(s):: James L. Conway

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