sacratez Excellent movie. Acting superb. Directed beautifully. No spoilers here. But I think this was the 6th time I've seen it.

gavin6942 A woman (Ashley Judd) framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.Jodie Foster was originally attached to star in the film as Libby Parsons after Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan and Brooke Shields all declined the role, and Bruce Beresford met with her several times about the script. I would have loved to see Foster in this, as personally I find Judd to be a weak actress and not very engaging.As far as mysteries or thrillers go, this one is pretty good but suffers from a major flaw: the premise is just not true. If it was about a woman trying to clear her name by finding her husband, that is a good story. But this plot device about being able to kill him again, that just doesn't hold up...

SnoopyStyle Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) is a successful investment dealer with loving wife Libby (Ashley Judd) and son. He takes her out on their new boat but he goes missing with signs of struggle. She is convicted for his murder. She asks her friend Angela Green (Annabeth Gish) to adopt her son instead of leaving him a ward of the state. Angela goes away with her son. Libby tracks them down and her son let slip that Nick is still alive. Prison lawyer Margaret tells her about double jeopardy that she can't be convicted again even if she kills her husband. After 6 years in prison, she is paroled under the supervision of hard-nosed Travis (Tommy Lee Jones) at the halfway house.The basic concept is questionable at best. On top of that, it forces the movie to be a slow grind for the trial. The movie is better off skipping much of that section. The murder trial feels very rushed. It's where a montage could really help or at least something to drive a more exciting opening. Once it gets to Tommy Lee Jones, this movie moves well. Judd and Jones have a good Fugitive feel. It's got good tension, but one must always overlook the questionable basic concept.

WakenPayne Okay so the one main reason why I sat down and watched this is because I was told it was a good movie and decided to sit down and take a look at it and despite some really REALLY questionable things that happen in this movie, I didn't mind it at all.Okay so the story is that a woman named Libby Parsons who is rich, has a family and is pretty much on top of the world. One night she finds her husband dead and she is the suspect. When she is found to be guilty she gives her child to her best friend and it turns out that a couple of months later they've disappeared off the map and when she tracks them she finds out that her husband was alive the whole time. She then finds out from a prison friend that she can kill her husband again and she can't be convicted for it or in any way legally harm her (Um... I'm not American but I'm going to call bullshit on this one).Once she goes on parole six years after she started doing her time, she then decides to set out and find her son by any means necessary, even by abusing her parole. Through this her Parole officer runs across the country to find her and stop her (Wasn't this almost exactly Tommy Lee Jones' role in The Fugitive too?).I think some of the acting was pretty... Well it was kind of on and off. I'm not just talking about how some performances were good while others were bad (although some of the supporting players do a consistently okay job) I mean with people like Ashley Judd. I mean at some points she did a convincing job while other times... you could tell she was reading from a script. Although to be fair I might consider this bad directing/editing than I would bad acting if they were okay with using some of these takes.And the writing does get a little weak in places. For example Libby's sole defense for not killing her husband is "You have to believe me", and as I said I'm pretty sure the loophole that she could kill her husband for real and there will be no legal repercussions is a really dumb plot point and there's a scene where she pretends to be her friend who adopted her son to buy a car (or learn her social security number) and a scene later we find out this friend died a few years earlier in the story... How come the Car Salesman didn't call out on the fact that she's using a dead woman's social security? It would have been better if that was revealed then.Okay now based on those complaints I think I should say what I liked. I actually think the cinematography is okay. The chase scenes are well directed and the premise is actually interesting enough to get me through the story and as I said some of the acting from people like Tommy Lee Jones is actually quite good.So I guess if you like something that isn't that smart yet has an interesting premise, good acting and good chase scenes then I would certainly recommend this movie. If you are looking for something else then I haven't really seen another movie like this (not even The Fugitive) so I can't really pass a recommendation there so as I said if you're looking for a movie that has a good premise even if some of the writing is weak then this is for you.