Director: Bruce Beresford
With Ashley Judd as a framed murderer frantically searching for her son and the husband who betrayed her, and with Tommy Lee Jones as her parole officer, this half-action/half melodrama just had to be good, and it is. There's nothing profound about it, though, and it's beautifully shot around Washington state, so one can sit back and enjoy the smooth editing without wanting much more.
Ashley Judd plays Libby, who's convicted of killing her husband Nick aboard a borrowed yacht somewhere off Whidbey Island. She goes to prison and after six years is paroled to a halfway house, where Tommy Lee Jones, playing Travis Lehman, a gone-nearly-to-seed law professor, governs the parolees.
The rest is action, with Libby driving a car off a ferry into the Sound, getting buried alive in a New Orleans cemetery, breaking into a school to get records that might help her search -- and so on. Travis comes along in hot pursuit.
Not a great movie, but watchable. Ashley Judd's just-contained frenzy has a lot of power, much more than the movie as a whole.
