Find an American movie with four words about crime

It was about a beautiful woman who woke up on a white steamboat to find that her husband was dead. She was arrested as a murderer and sentenced to six or seven years in prison. Therefore, she called her good friend (female) outside the prison to take care of her son. However, every time she wanted to talk to her son, her good friend would stop her in every way possible. The female protagonist began to feel that something was wrong. So she got out of prison (I forgot how. After she had served her sentence, she began to investigate and found out that her husband was not dead. He was even with her good friend, so she began to follow her husband. The tracking process included many details that I forgot...
In the end, she finally found her son. He was playing soccer or basketball on the grass…The son had already grown up, but he still recognized his mother.

Answer 1

An American movie called The Family, which was about crime and family, was released in 1985. The movie was directed by William Eubank and starred Robert De Niro and Meg Ryan. The movie was about a crime family, including the father of two criminals and a young girl.