Lara Brennan is serving life for a murder which, her husband believes, she did not commit. As her final appeal fails she attempts suicide. At this point her teacher husband John (Russell Crowe) comes to the conclusion that the only course of action left to him is to break her out of prison and flee the country with her and their son. To do this, however, he will have to discover how far into the criminal underworld he is prepared to go.
This is a remake of the French thriller Pour Elle (All for Her) of a couple of years ago. That was a gripping and rather low key little movie. Russell Crowe doesn't really do low key, and the final break out sequence is far larger scale and more action packed (and more filled with things going wrong) than the suspenseful French equivalent.
Elizabeth Banks as Lara looks small, dowdy and vulnerable throughout most of the movie, and is becoming an actress who impresses me with each role she takes - she has a huge range.
Russell Crowe's John isn't a vast amount different from several po-faced contemporary city-dwellers he has offered recently.
But there is a moment, relatively dialogue-free, between Crowe and Brian Dennehy playing his father, which is worth the price of admission on its own.
This is a remake of the French thriller Pour Elle (All for Her) of a couple of years ago. That was a gripping and rather low key little movie. Russell Crowe doesn't really do low key, and the final break out sequence is far larger scale and more action packed (and more filled with things going wrong) than the suspenseful French equivalent.
Elizabeth Banks as Lara looks small, dowdy and vulnerable throughout most of the movie, and is becoming an actress who impresses me with each role she takes - she has a huge range.
Russell Crowe's John isn't a vast amount different from several po-faced contemporary city-dwellers he has offered recently.
But there is a moment, relatively dialogue-free, between Crowe and Brian Dennehy playing his father, which is worth the price of admission on its own.