Imagine that you and your husband are on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. Then in the middle of the night you awake to find your husband isn’t beside you. When you start to get out of bed you find that you have blood all over your white rob and your hands are just dripping with it. You start to walk out of the cabin bedroom and up onto the deck of the boat. While you are walking you can see blood that has been dropped all over the boat. You start to scream for your husband, but he doesn’t answer you. Then you look down and see a knife with blood on it. Your first reaction is to pick up the knife, and when you do all of a sudden the Coast Guards are approaching you and telling you to lay the knife down. After a few days they are not able to find your husband’s body, and after they investigated all the evidence they decided to charge you with your husbands murder.
You have a son, and now what are you to do? Who is your son going to live with once you are in prison for a murder you never committed? You turn to your best friend and ask her to adopt your son for you, cause you know she will take good care of him and always make sure he seen his mommy. Then while you are in prison you call your friend and you find out that she is no longer in town, she moved with your son and she never told you. Now what are you to do? Where is your son, is he safe? Then you figure out a way to find out were she moved too, and once you got the new phone number you call her and ask her to talk to your son and you ask her why she didn’t inform you that she had moved. Your best friend begins to lie and say that she did try to contact you but was unable to. Then you are talking to your son and all of a sudden you hear him saying “daddy’s home”. What in the world is going on Nick (his father and her dead husband) is dead or was he?
One of your new friends in the joint (jail) was a lawyer at one time, and she gives you some advice on something that is called “Double Jeopardy”. What is Double Jeopardy you might ask? Well it is a law that once you are convicted and sentenced for one crime you can never be put on trial for the same crime again. That meant that once you were out of jail you could go right up to your “alive” husband right in public and murder him, and there will be nothing that anyone can do about it because you were already in prison once for his death, and you can’t go back once again for the same crime.
So once you are out of jail you now set out to find your son and to get revenge on your husband who set you up for his own murder. Wow can you believe that? I will stop right there and not go any further into the story. I’m sure you can imagine what you would do if you were the mother who lost her child because of a crime you never done, and to top it all off a crime that really never happened in the first place. You spent 6 years of your life behind bars and now you are ready to fight for your child.
That is what this movie is all about. The two stars’ in this movie is the famous Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. They both play outstanding roles together in this movie. The movie is full or suspense and action. You can’t imagine being in prison for something you never done, and Ashley Judd sure does show you her “get even” side when she takes off to find her husband and son and take her revenge. Tommy Lee is her probation officer, and he is very striked, and he doesn’t believe in giving a girl a second chance. During the movie he is chasing after Ashley trying to bring her back so he can put her back in jail for breaking her parole. Once she finds her husband Tommy Lee then begins to believe that she was telling the truth all along.
I will again stop there and tell you to watch the movie and find out if she does take her revenge out on her husband or not, and if so did she do it public or private? Does Tommy Lee Jones help her out, or does he turn her in at the end and make her finish out her time? What happens to her and him will blow you away. I really enjoyed this movie and I hope you will too.