Getting Out

• Director: John Korty
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Family Drama, Crime Drama
• Themes: Women in Prison, Mothers and Daughters, Going Straight
• Release Year: 1994
• Country: US
• Run Time: 120 minutes

Plot

This taut, gritty made-for-TV drama is based on an off-Broadway play by Marsha Norman and follows the struggle of a female ex-con to reform despite the destructive influence of her terrible mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Suzi Bass - Processor; Ellen Burstyn - Arlie's Mother; Tandy Cronyn - Placement Worker; Rebecca De Mornay - Arlene Holsclaw; Bruce Evers - Prison Guard; Richard Jenkins - Chaplain; Robert Knepper - Carl; Carole Mitchell-Leon - Ruby; Linda Pierce - Shopkeeper; Norm Skaggs - Helen Craig; Sean Sweeney - Boy in Pickup; David Dwyer - Paraplegic

Credit

Jan Scott - Art Director, Lynn Kressel - Casting, Brent Shields - Co-producer, John Korty - Director, Jim Oliver - Editor, Robert Halmi, Sr. - Executive Producer, Richard Welsh - Executive Producer, Mason K. Daring - Composer (Music Score), William Wages - Cinematographer, Dorothea Petrie - Producer, Eugene Corr - Screenwriter, Ruth Shapiro - Screenwriter, Marsha Norman - Play Author

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