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  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 49 m

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 a ...

Directed By: Lynn Shelton

Written By: Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 49 m

Outside In

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
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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 a ...

Directed By: Lynn Shelton

Written By: Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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90
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.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 8, 2018
Shelton’s work is understated, but elevates seemingly forgettable scenarios with a wise, humane approach that makes even a lesser work like Outside In a cut above the market standard.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW

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80
Mar 29, 2018
In a movie whose greatest tension comes from wondering whether Chris will violate his parole by drinking a beer, the actors need to be compelling. Easily clearing that bar, Ms. Falco gives Carol a gentle kindness and the emotional intelligence to transform Chris’s ardor into a catalyst.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Allison Shoemaker FULL REVIEW
75
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).
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 29, 2018
The drama of Outside In is largely underplayed. It’s a tale of people seeking simple lives on their own terms, and while it may be withholding, its small scale seems a statement on just how many worthy stories are kept behind bars.
By Abbey Bender FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Jordan Ruimy FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Duplass Brothers Productions
Release Date Mar 30, 2018
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline Things are never the same on the outside.
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Awards

Sun Valley Film Festival, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Washington DC Filmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Göteborg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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