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Cruel Instruction (2022)

Directed by Stanley M. Brooks

Overview

The story of 16-year-old Kayla Adams, whose mother, Karen is advised by the school’s counselor to send Kayla to get treatment at a youth residential treatment center after she gets expelled from school. Kayla arrives at the Utah facility on the same day as her roommate Amanda, a treatment program veteran who knows exactly what the girls were in for. Led by headmistress Miss Connie, the staff uses draconian methods including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line. After being pushed to their limits and stripped of their lifelines, including any ability to freely communicate with the outside world, the two young women must band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.

Rated PG-13 | Length 85 minutes

Actors

Kelcey Mawema | Morgan Taylor Campbell | Camryn Manheim | Cynthia Bailey | Jason Gray-Stanford | Calder Stewart | Sydney Scotia | Genea Charpentier | Nicole Muñoz | Mackenzie Murdock | Megan Grant | Julia Benson | Viv Leacock | Tiernan Hickson | Sidney Quesnelle | Lea Matina | Colleen Wheeler | Xantha Radley | Kwesi Ameyaw | Calix Fraser | Junnicia Lagoutin | Tim Beckmann | Justin Lacey | Daniel Chai | Maggie Ma | Zak Santiago | Veenu Sandhu | Anita Wittenberg | Tristan Ranger | Justin Rimorin