Outside In

Name: Outside In
Genre: Drama
Released: March 30, 2018
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Aaron Blakely, Alycia Delmore, Ben Schwartz, Edie Falco, Emily Cowan

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The Orchard | Release Date: March 30, 2018 | TV-MA

Starring: Aaron Blakely, Alycia Delmore, Ben Schwartz, Edie Falco, Emily Cowan, Jay Duplass, Kaitlyn Dever, Louis Hobson, Saige Hawthorne, Stephen Grenley

Summary: After serving 20 years for the crime of essentially being in the wrong place at the wrong time, 38-year-old Chris (Jay Duplass) is granted early parole thanks largely to the tireless advocacy of Carol (Edie Falco), his former high-school teacher. As he struggles with the challenges of navigating the modern world as an ex-con, and with aAfter serving 20 years for the crime of essentially being in the wrong place at the wrong time, 38-year-old Chris (Jay Duplass) is granted early parole thanks largely to the tireless advocacy of Carol (Edie Falco), his former high-school teacher. As he struggles with the challenges of navigating the modern world as an ex-con, and with a fraught relationship with his brother Ted (Ben Schwartz), Chris ends up confessing his romantic love for Carol — a love that, given her marital status, Carol cannot reciprocate. Or can she? Carol longs for something her husband no longer provides. Meanwhile, Carol’s daughter Hildy (Kaitlyn Dever) befriends Chris, finding a kindred spirit in this awkward, tormented older guy. … Expand

Director: Lynn Shelton

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 109 min

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Justin Chang

Mar 29, 2018

Duplass' puppy-dog affect may seem softer than you'd expect for a character who spent 20 years behind bars, but the actor's quietly wrenching performance gives the lie to any easy assumptions about the experience of the incarcerated. And Falco...gives a performance of aching depth and subtlety. Read full review

The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth

Feb 8, 2018

Outside In is not a story filled with events or even big moments, but, instead, accumulates its momentum through the numerous small decisions that eventually bring our leads to a hard won understanding. Read full review

Chris Nashawaty

Mar 28, 2018

Shelton may not be as prolific as the Duplasses (I’m not sure anyone could be – they seem to churn out movies in their sleep), but her work has steadily gotten more assured and quietly powerful. Her continued partnership with the brothers is a tonic for anyone who cares about keeping the Sundance-of-the-‘90s spirit alive. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Mar 28, 2018

While this is probably Shelton’s best fully scripted dramatic feature — a big improvement on the incoherent "Touchy Feely" (2013) — it’s the sort of earnest, conventional movie that many indie directors could make (and many do). Read full review

RogerEbert.com Allison Shoemaker

Mar 30, 2018

Shelton and Duplass may not stray very far from the path which, at the film’s outset, they seem likeliest to take, and not every moment along that path lands quite as well as it could. But like Bird’s score, Outside In knows how to take us from the outside and bring us, well, in. Read full review

Robert Abele

Mar 30, 2018

Needless to say, this kind of thing wouldn’t work if its leads didn’t have chemistry, and Duplass and Falco do a wonderful job keeping up our hopes for them as we fear the slightest dip in the outlook for their lives, whether together or apart. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Ruimy

Feb 8, 2018

The struggles that Chris and Carol are put through may be brought to life with an authentic touch by Shelton, but they are explored with much complexity in better, more substance-filled endeavors. Read full review

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LegendaryLass

Jan 3, 2019

Falco is rich and deep as always, but Duplass mumbles and puppy-dogs his way through his stumbling performance. Every plot point is under written and the whole film amounts to sort of a sad shrug.

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