Newly released from prison, Anthony does his best to rebuild his life, getting a job, and reconnecting with his ex-girlfriend, Jade, and their young son.
"A recently released ex-con can't get anything right in "Chain Link," writer-director Dylan Reynolds' rough, intimate drama that struggles to make a downhill life seem something more than just inevitable. Reynolds focuses on the faces of his committed actors, who are given unusually generous, extended dialogue scenes that - with few exceptions - manage to pulse with a sense of reality. Mark Irving
Robert Koehler, Variety
"Luckily, first-time feature filmmaker Dylan Reynolds' Chain Link isn't as clichéd as its official synopsis makes it sound: Newly released from prison, Anthony (Mark Irvingsen, a low-rent Billy Bob Thornton) attempts to mend relations with his young son (Luciano Rauso) and ex-wife (Yassmin Alers) but gets knocked off the straight-and-narrow path to redemption by snowballing circumstances beyond hi
