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 Director
: Bruce Beresford
Starring
: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth
Gish
Picture
: 1.85:1 Anamorphic, DD 5.1, Dual layer, Keep Case
Running
Time : 105 mins
The
story:
Murder
isn't always a crime.
Libby
Parsons (Ashley Judd) has a picture perfect life. Her husband,
Nick (Bruce Greenwood), is a successful businessman and
a pillar of the local community and they live with their
young son in a beautiful lakeside retreat. On a night together
aboard their boat Libby awakes to discover Nick gone and
the boat, herself and a knife covered in blood. Scared and
confused she stumbles on deck and is confronted by the police.
Nicks' body is never recovered and Libby is charged and
convicted of his murder and is forced to give custody of
her son to her best friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish). Whilst
in prison Libby discovers that all is not as it seems...NIck
is alive and suddenly her son and best friend have disappeared.
After seven years she is granted parole and must live in
a halfway house run by a strict parole officer, Travis Lehman
(Tommy lee Jones). In order for her to find her son she
must risk everything and become a fugitive. With time running
out and Travis in hot pursuit she must do everything she
can to discover the truth.
Summary:
A rather luke warm affair at the box office this action/thriller
is let down by the fact that it does not actually have enough
action in it. In fact some of the action scenes seem to
have been contrived just for this purpose rather than to
enhance the plot. Ashley Judd plays another athletic action
role (Remember Kiss the Girls ?) as the mother betrayed
and fighting to get back her son, and in my opinion carries
the film. Tommy Lee Jones, whilst not bad, really does not
have much to do and could have been made better use of.
The plot is littered with "twists", except that
they are all rather predictable and there is nothing that
you have not seen before. Having said that the film does
have its high points and the New Orleans scenes do not disappoint.
Overall a run of the mill thriller with a slightly below
average plot but with a good performance from Judd. Finally,
look out for the name that Nick assumes in New Orleans -
None other than Nicholas Parson's!
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