The Scared Straight movies in order
There are 3 Scared Straight films, about 3.3 hours in total. The first was released in 1978, the latest in 1999. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Juvenile delinquents are confronted by prisoners in order to scare them away from lives of crime.
- 1
Scared Straight! (1978)
2 Nov 1978
The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
- 2
Scared Straight! Another Story (1980)
6 Nov 1980 · 100 min
A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.
- 3
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1999)
15 Apr 1999 · 95 min
Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.