Club Fed is a 1990 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 that satirizes the "Club Fed

Club Fed

In North American English, Club Fed is a term that describes a prison whose accommodations are less severe than many other prisons. The term is a pun on the "Club Med" chain of all-inclusive resorts.-Differential treatment for white-collar offenders:...

"-type of minimum security prisons that wealthy white-collar criminals

White-collar crime

Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" . Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism, and believed that criminal behavior was...

 are sent to.

Plot summary

A gangster is murdered, and all of his holdings are in his girlfriend's (Judy Landers

Judy Landers

Judy Landers is an American film and television actress.-Early years:Landers was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was raised in Rockland County, New York. She is the daughter of Ruth Landers, and is the younger sister of fellow actress Audrey Landers...

) name; she's charged and sent to "Club Fed," where all the inmates are rich. While there, she meets and falls in love with an undercover FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

 agent (Joseph Campanella

Joseph Campanella

Joseph Campanella in Lewistown, Pennsylvania is an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955, including such shows as The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Road West, The Golden Girls and Mama's Family. He also had a role in...

), who was sent there to find signs of corruption so that the FBI can shut down the prison.

Availability

This movie was released on DVD

DVD

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by Trinity Home Entertainment on February 14, 2006.