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| | Elizabeth leads a perfect life with a husband, four-year old son and a caring, loving nanny. One night she wakes up covered in blood and her husband missing. She is jailed for murder but on parole, six years later, she attempts to find out what really happened...
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No person (shall) ... be subject for the
same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ...
– Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
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Libby Parsons has it all – a handsome, wealthy husband whom she loves, a
son they both adore, a beautiful home near Seattle, wonderful friends. But her
idyllic life suddenly turns into a nightmare when her husband Nick (Bruce
Greenwood) disappears overboard during a romantic weekend of sailing and she is
accused of his murder.
Convicted and imprisoned, Libby begs her best friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish), to
adopt her 5-year-old son. Angie agrees and then vanishes with Matty. With the
help of prison friends Margaret (Roma Maffia) and Evelyn (Davenia McFadden),
Libby uses the telephone to trace them to San Francisco. There, she discovers
to her horror, the two are living with Nick, who staged his own
"murder" and has adopted a new identity.
Margaret, a disbarred lawyer imprisoned for murdering her husband, pulls Libby
back from despair with some comforting news: When Libby finally gets out,
she'll be free to murder Nick – in the middle of Times Square if she wants
– because she can't be tried twice for the same crime. That would be
double jeopardy, and she's already been convicted of killing Nick.
Six years later, Libby is discharged from prison into a halfway house and the
care of Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones), a cynical, burnt-out parole officer
haunted by failures in his past. Lehman won't tolerate the slightest breach of
the rules, but Libby almost immediately violates parole to track down her son
Matty and Nick. Embarrassed by her escape, Lehman becomes as obsessed with
finding Libby as she is with finding her son. What begins as a simple, albeit
terrifying chase soon turns into an odyssey that changes his life as profoundly
as it changes Libby's.
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2000 Paramount
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