Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.


Books with substantial mentioning of Mrs. Soffel


John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, A Survey of 1984 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985