Double jeopardy

A fellow convict tells her she can shoot her husband in the middle of Times Square and still not be convicted. She keeps that in mind six years later when she8217;s sent on parole supervised by the harsh Tommy Lee Jones.

Staging her escape in a well-shot river scene, Judd begins her cross-country chase to recover her son with parole officer Jones in hot pursuit. Of course, the tough-talking actor has plenty of experience tracking celebrity convicts 8212; first Harrison Ford in The Fugitive, later Wesley Snipes in US Marshals. So he merely goes through his paces, following Judd from frigid British Columbia to the near-tropical South Carolina as she tricks and treats her way to her son past her rogue ex-husband.

Despite a cliched and utterly predictable ending, the film is watchable mainly due to Lee Jones, and also Judd who displays flashes of her brilliance, reminding you almost of the harried mother in The Sixth Sense.