June (Melissa Kay Anderson) is a Jamaican immigrant living in the US. She’s been there ten years and still has a strong accent and although her son, Leighton (Ian Smalls Jr.) has grown up in the States, she feels the time is right to bring him to where she was born. So, June and Leighton travel back to Jamaica and meet Grace (Kaci Hamilton) who welcomes them with open arms.

Getaway is a short drama about how a view of life in another country can change a person’s mind. Being a fair distance away from the US, there are certainly very different issues which affect people in different ways such as race and gun control. Something that somebody may not consider when it doesn’t directly affect them leaves an impact when even for a little while, doubts start to creep in.

Leighton shows that it’s affecting him too and at such a young age, no child should have to deal with drills that help children deal with the possibly of an armed intruder at a school.

Over the course of only twenty minutes, director Stephanie Malson lays out the story written by Malaika Paquiot and at first it feels like a gentle, feel-good drama reconnecting a mother and son with their heritage. However, thanks to Smalls Jr.’s performance, it brings out a real and unexpected depth when a little boy feels the need to express such worries which no child should face.

With only the time it has, perhaps the story could have been fleshed out a little further so that Leighton’s revelation becomes all the more shocking. However, Getaway does just enough to make the audience think.

There’s a good connection between the actors and the bond between mother and son feels real and authentic, making it all the more heart-breaking as the story progresses. Tales of warnings about gun control in America certainly aren’t new and this may not be the last one.

So, it turns out that a different perspective helps to bring home the message in a different way. One that perhaps the audience weren’t expecting.

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