Jane & Tony
Genre: Drama
Theaters: 2,287
Date: July 11th
Cast: Natalie Portman (Jane Woodward), Tommy Lee Jones (Tony)
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 116min (1hr, 56min)
Budget: $10m
Jane Woodward was always a true friend, and she id an incredible student in middle school. Everyone liked her because she was a truly good person. However, things change when her parents are killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, Tony. While being sentenced to a 15 year sentence as a result of his crimes, a lot has changed since then. The emotional trauma that Jane had to face was overbearing. When she was in college, her grades began to drop, and she turned to drugs, soon dropping out of school. She now lives in a small apartment building with her six year old son, Noah. She is currently single, as she had gotten a divorce from her past boyfriend.
Tony has felt devastated for killing the girl's parents ever since the crime happened. 15 years ago, he was aggresive and stupid, and he has truly changed a lot since those days. In an attempt to apologize for the crime he had committed, he goes to visit Jane in her apartment. When he arrives, Jane recognizes who the man is after he confesses what he had done. She yells at him to leave, angrily asserted that he ruined her life. However, Tony tells her that she wants to set things right, right before Jane is about to call the police. He brings her to let her and Noah live at his house, which is a bit nicer than where she is living now.
Throughout the rest of the film, Tony and Jane try to fix their lives up from the hole that he put both of them in, growing a friendship for each other as well. Both are able to find love, find jobs, and for the first time in nearly two decades, find happiness. Even with the occasional fight, the two stay close together. Tony soon has a heart attack, and is unable to recover. Jane feels sorry for him, feeling as if he had repaid the debt that was owed for over 15 years. He ruined her life, but he also managed to fix it. At the end, Jane becomes a whole new woman. He life is back on track, and she goes on to live the life that she had dreamed of as a child.