On the surface, "Jailbreak Lovers" is about a daring prison escape of a man serving a life sentence. But the core of the film is really about his enabler, Toby Lynn.
Toby married her husband as a teen. Now in middle age, she is leading a suffocating life filled with loneliness and unfilled expectations she never realized she had...until she met the smooth-talking prisoner, John.
John is a real charmer, and it does not take long for Toby to give in. As their "relationship" blossoms through use of a cell phone, their plans pick up steam to get John out of the slammer. Of course, the plan is amateur to the degree that the police detectives are laughing like schoolboys at how easy it is to track them down in Tennessee.
It was a stretch to believe that Toby would have the freedom to roam at will around the prison facility, including storage areas where she could meet privately with John. But this lack of credibility was compensated by the luminous performance of Catherine Bell as Toby. The performer made it possible to suspend disbelief and understand how Toby Lynn was, for the first time in her life, able to experience liberation. The title of memoir of the real Toby Lynn is not surprising: "Unleashed."
Toby married her husband as a teen. Now in middle age, she is leading a suffocating life filled with loneliness and unfilled expectations she never realized she had...until she met the smooth-talking prisoner, John.
John is a real charmer, and it does not take long for Toby to give in. As their "relationship" blossoms through use of a cell phone, their plans pick up steam to get John out of the slammer. Of course, the plan is amateur to the degree that the police detectives are laughing like schoolboys at how easy it is to track them down in Tennessee.
It was a stretch to believe that Toby would have the freedom to roam at will around the prison facility, including storage areas where she could meet privately with John. But this lack of credibility was compensated by the luminous performance of Catherine Bell as Toby. The performer made it possible to suspend disbelief and understand how Toby Lynn was, for the first time in her life, able to experience liberation. The title of memoir of the real Toby Lynn is not surprising: "Unleashed."