Gender Roles

I feel like The Next Three Days would be a much more interesting movie if a) Elizabeth Banks’ character was guilty of the murder for which she’d been incarcerated or b) she was breaking Russell Crowe’s innocent character out of jail:

This just feels like a variation on a damsel in distress story, otherwise. And not a very interesting one at that, particularly since Crowe’s character doesn’t appear to feel a lot of concern or doubt about his wife’s innocence.