Double Jeopardy

Paramount - Paramount

Release date: 2000-02-22
DVD
Director:Bruce Beresford
Actors: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau

Action, Action Thriller, Adult Language, Adventure, Chase Movie, Color, Crime, Drama, Earnest, English, Feature, Flight of the Innocent, Grim, Menacing, Miscarriage of Justice, Movie, Mystery, Mystery / Suspense, Mystery / Suspense / Thriller, Out For Revenge


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Life is good for Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd)--until she wakes up on a boat, covered in blood and finds herself in prison for the murder of her husband, though his body's never found. She gives custody of their son to her best friend.

Then the friend stops bringing her son to visit, and Libby finally tracks her down on the phone...and hears her son saying "daddy." Of course, nobody will listen to her claims, so she takes the advice of a (literal) jailhouse lawyer who tells her about double jeopardy--the guarantee in the Constitution that you cannot be tried for the same crime twice. Libby does her time, gets out on parole, and sets about looking for the man who set her up. She's thwarted and later abetted by Travis Lehman, her parole officer (Tommy Lee Jones).

It doesn't work this way in real life--even if someone faked their own death, it wouldn't give a person who'd been convicted of their murder a free license to kill them in cold blood. They couldn't be tried for the same crime twice, but that wouldn't be considered the same crime.

Be that as it may, it really doesn't matter to my enjoyment of the movie. I love the premise, and the revenge story is very sweet. The character of Libby goes from a fairly bland, contented wife and mother to a determined woman with a mission, and I enjoyed seeing her find her inner strength. Lehman likewise finds more in himself than he thought he had--he'd been steadily going downhill and was cynical and unsympathetic. Libby's determination inspires him to go from sticking to the black-and-white of his job to taking a stand and risking everything for what he thinks is right.

This is one of those movies where justice prevails in a way we wish it would in real life. Real life's messier, but in movies like this, the bad guy gets his just deserts in an utterly appropriate way.

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Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd were wonderful in this thriller which keeps your interest throughout. This is a thriller with twists that keep you guessing.

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This is a good, suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Good casting, good performances from Tommy Lee Jones and Ashely Judd--and--a an excellent anamorphic, widecrseen, enhanced for 16x9 high defintion TV, transfer to DVD. Sharp, crisp images with great colors--looks great on a large screen, high definition TV, played on a DVD player that can "upconvert". I watched this on a 46" Samsung LCD TV, played on a 1080p HD DVD player. You will not be disappointed with the video and audio quality of this DVD.

I've seen this movie several times, and I know the outcome--but it is still suspenseful nonetheless. Highly recommended!

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