SummaryAfter 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 r... Read More
Directed By:Lynn Shelton
Written By:Lynn Shelton, Jay Duplass
Outside In
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76
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Mar 29, 2018
90
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.
Feb 8, 2018
83
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.
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Nov 14, 2022
8
Quietly beautiful film. Falco and Duplass are marvelous, and the supporting cast is perfect. Shelton's directing and Andrew Bird's music are spot-on as well. The writing too, though I would've liked a more convincing depiction of this mother-daughter relationship, rather than the standard "I'm a teenager" that the daughter actually chalks it up to. Otherwise, this is exactly the kind of film I love: Focused, powerful, authentic and moving, with images I won't soon shake.
Jun 17, 2021
7
i loved jay duplass. he is really boyishly good looking even with the thick beard. very well acted role and loving an older woman is a hard act to follow. very warped.
could not bear the scene of one night stand in the motel.
very touching story as being ex prisoner always put a indelible stigma like a noose.
so glad he was ok in the end thus making this movie a rather positive one despite the depressing undertone.
Mar 29, 2018
80
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.
Mar 30, 2018
75
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.
Mar 28, 2018
75
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).
Mar 29, 2018
70
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.
Feb 8, 2018
50
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.
Jan 3, 2019
6
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.
Production Company:
- Duplass Brothers Productions
Release Date:Mar 30, 2018
Duration:1 h 49 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:Things are never the same on the outside.
Awards
Sun Valley Film Festival, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Washington DC Filmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Göteborg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
