LIFE seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit.

Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son Luke (Ty Simpkins) and teaching at community college while he pursues every means to prove her innocence.

With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution – to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world.

What would you do if the person you loved was suddenly arrested and taken from you, maybe forever? What if your only chance to pull your family’s life back from the brink was for you to try to pull off a potentially deadly crime with all-but-impossible odds of success?

These questions become heart-poundingly real in Paul Haggis’s taut suspense thriller.

Haggis and his star, Russell Crowe, present a hero not often seen in modern version of the genre: a keenly intelligent, methodical, but otherwise unremarkable man, whose actions are driven by desperation, determination and, above all, love.