Despite sporadic melodramatic excess, GETTING OUT is a moving, made-for-TV transcription of Marsha Norman's Off-Broadway play.
Busted out of prison to give birth outside the Cage, headstrong Arlie (Rebecca DeMornay) stretches her sentence to eight years after shooting a man during a gas station holdup. Upon release, Arlie is determined to regain her son from foster care but has difficulty acclimatizing herself to liberty.
With career options limited to minimum-wage work, Arlie foolishly blows her savings on a cosmetics-sales con. Although encouraged by an understanding ex-con neighbor Ruby (Carol Mitchell-Leon), Arlie finds it hard to resist old habits, particul...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins