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‘Inside’ Review: Guy Pearce and Cosmo Jarvis Are Inmates in an Offbeat Aussie Prison Drama
'Inside' draws on strong performances and an unusual psychological focus to sidestep most of the familiar tropes associated with jailhouse drama.
With Guy Pearce and Cosmo Jarvis as the two older convicts opposite newcomer Vincent Miller, “Inside” is a strongly acted piece that compels attention despite the occasional murky plot point. An opening home movie shows a wedding taking place in prison, between the future parents of aptly named Mel Blight (Miller) — at this point he’s just a baby bump sported by his mother through the ceremony, conceived during a conjugal visit. But highly damaged Mark, whose upbringing was evidently a nightmare of abuse, has found salvation, or at least escape: He’s ordained himself a servant of the Lord, holding improvisational services in the prison chapel to a paltry flock.
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