Double Jeopardy

9/24/19991h 45m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Murder isn't always a crime. ~

Overview:

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$70,000,000.00

Revenue:

$177,841,558.00

Key words:

sailboat
court case
sailing trip
new orleans, louisiana
ferry boat
deceived wife
women's prison
ex-cop
parole board
wrongful imprisonment
courtroom
fake death
ex-con
lost at sea
framed for murder
parolee
mother child separation
revenge plot
double jeopardy
probation officer
murder suspect
prison life
determination
halfway house
paintings
convicted murderer
revenge thriller
best friends
puget sound
whidbey island
mother looking for child
husband fakes his murder

Cast

Ashley Judd

~ as ~

Libby Parsons

Tommy Lee Jones

~ as ~

Travis Lehman

Bruce Greenwood

~ as ~

Nick Parsons

Annabeth Gish

~ as ~

Angie Green

Benjamin Weir

~ as ~

Matty Parsons, Age 4

Jay Brazeau

~ as ~

Bobby Long

Roma Maffia

~ as ~

Margaret Skolowski

Davenia McFadden

~ as ~

Evelyn

Gillian Barber

~ as ~

Rebecca Tingely

Michael Gaston

~ as ~

Cutter

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Reviews (3)

PG
Per Gunnar Jonsson
Written 12 year(s) ago
6
This is a movie that we got a very long time ago when we still purchased a paper TV-magazine to know what was on TV every night. The last couple of years when we did that we frequently got a DVD as a “bonus” with it and this is one of those. According to my movie collection database we have had it since 2008 and last evening we finally got around watching it.

This is a quite okay movie. It will not blow your socks off but it is fairly okay and worth watching. It is a nice thriller/fugitive style movie to watch on a middle-of-the-week evening. I would probably not have been impressed had I gone to a theater to watch it but watching it as a TV-movie it was quite enjoyable. There are the usual silly moments that tend to be in these kinds of movies of course, starting with the stupid wife who just has to pick up the bloody knife just before the police arrives. Why do all (most) script writers have to put that crap into every movie?

I do generally like Tommy Lee Jones even though he tends to look and act pretty much the same no matter which movie he is in. I guess I like stability. The plot is okay. It is a fairly conventional husband frames wife, wife goes after husband kind of story and does not really provide any surprises.

One thing that caught my attention was that the car dealer apparently could do a credit check on a woman that was, as was found out later in the movie, dead since three years. I think someone missed the QA-checking of the script in terms of credibility there but then, as I said, the movie will not blow your socks of and the plot is fairly standard Hollywood fare with the usual silly stuff in it.
JPV852
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
Weak and from a legal standpoint complete wrong (despite a former lawyer turned murderer and former law professor saying so). Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones are good and Bruce Greenwood plays smarmy well but this isn't a very good thriller. 2.75/5
Andre Gonzales
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
Pretty good movie. I wouldn't want to do time for a murder I didn't commit. If I was set up like this movie, I'd probably do the same thing she did.