It is a movie about woman in a prison from 90s or early 2000s. The woman manages to become a nanny for the sheriff’s child or the prison warden’s child, or something like that. She’s playing with the child outside, in a large green field. They’re tossing a ball back and forth. She wants the child to run farther away, so she throws the ball very far. At that moment, she tries to escape—probably to a car—but the ball falls into a pond, and the child, trying to reach it, falls into the water and drowns. The woman gives up on escaping and saves the kid. She can’t swim either. They pull them out. Thanks to that, she’s released.
The female protagonist was blonde (the kid was too) and had to escape from prison urgently because someone in that prison wanted to kill her.
Quote from the below Wikipedia plot summary:
“She abandons her plan in order to save the warden’s young daughter from drowning, earning herself a pardon.”
The woman inmate playing with the kid and throwing her a ball on the green grass with the pond/lake in the background:
A bit later the local news says on the TV that the woman, although she was unable to swim, still jumped into the water and saved the daughter of the warden. Both were subsequently rescued.
The blonde female inmate who wants to kill the female protagonist in the prison:
You can watch the full mini-series on the internet here, the scene with the woman inmate playing with the child on the grass starts about at the 1:18:42 mark:
Yes, thank you. It is very similar but in my version, the child falls into a pond. It is a small pond with a building in the background. The child doesn’t go into the water under the dam. And they rescue them right away. Although the scene is generally similar. However, it was movie, not series.
Anything is possible, but too many details fit. Maybe you saw a shorter, edited TV movie version of this mini-series? The woman was not able to swim, they were rescued. And there is the blonde female inmate who wants to kill the woman (see the screenshot above), maybe you are mixing up these smaller details?
Yes, thank you. It is very similar but in my version, the child falls into a pond. It is a small pond with a building in the background. The child doesn’t go into the water under the dam. And they rescue them right away. Although the scene is generally similar. However, it was movie, not series.
– wositelecAnything is possible, but too many details fit. Maybe you saw a shorter, edited TV movie version of this mini-series? The woman was not able to swim, they were rescued. And there is the blonde female inmate who wants to kill the woman (see the screenshot above), maybe you are mixing up these smaller details?
– casspir