What happens to a relationship when its rules change? That's a question writer/director Lynn Shelton has spent a good part of her filmmaking career answering in a series of intimate indie comedies like Humpday and Your Sister's Sister . Her latest, Outside In , stars Edie Falco and Jay Duplass and it centers on a seemingly impossible relationship that ... may just prove possible. We meet Duplass' character Chris on his way to what will prove a painfully awkward surprise party. One reason it's so awkward is the reason behind the party itself: Chris, now 38, has spent the last 20 years in prison ... apparently without deserving to. He's out now, thanks to the hard and tireless work of Carol (Falco). She believed in him, and threw herself into years of research and legal legwork. She kept his spirits up with lessons and letters — for two decades, she's been his only lifeline. And at this party, everything she's been hoping for, working for, has finally happened: He's here. What now ?
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