Michael Shawn’s review published on Letterboxd:
A sort of female Midnight Express, this made-for-television movie depicts the harrowing true story of Gene LePere (Lee Remick in her final role before her untimely death), who while vacationing in Turkey is pressed upon by street peddlers to buy a trio of carved heads as souvenirs. But when she goes through customs, it is determined that one of them is an antiquity dating back to the Roman Empire and she is arrested for smuggling. Forced to spend months inside a Turkish prison in deplorable conditions while waiting for a bail hearing, her spirits are crushed, but once she gets bail, she goes about devising a plan to escape the country or die trying. Lee Remick is very sympathetic in the role. It's easy to imagine her as your typical American mom getting caught up in extraordinary circumstances, so it's hard not to identify with her. She's surrounded by others helping her cause, but some are more effectual than others, and some try to warn her off from escaping, even though the alternative could be 5-10 years in prison. It's a satisfyingly dramatic story, all the more so because it really happened. It's clear that it's a TV movie, but it's not half bad.