Double Jeopardy | 
| Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  215 reviews
Sales Rank: 2571
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 097363331544
ISBN: 0792160215
UPC: 009736333154
EAN: 9780792160212
ASIN: 0792160215
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1999
Release Date: February 22, 2000
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Product Description
FRAMED FOR MURDERING HER HUSBAND, A WOMAN ESCAPES FROM PRISON AND PLUNGES INTO A DESPERATE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, SURVIVAL AND REVENGE. FEATURES: BEHIND-THE-SCENES FEATURETTE, THEATRICAL TRAILER, ENGLISH SUBTITLES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING, SCENE SELECTION AND MUCH MORE.
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Young Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is happy as a clam, and why not? She's got a loving, successful husband (Bruce Greenwood), an adorable son, and an island home to die for. One morning, after a romantic sailing expedition with her husband, Libby finds herself covered in blood. Her husband's missing, the boat resembles a murder scene, and there's a knife on the deck. One might stop right there and call for help; Libby, however, takes matters--or, more specifically, the knife--into her own hands, and the moment she does, there's the Coast Guard. Faster than you can say frame-up, Libby's been charged with murder and jailed, with her young son stripped from her custody. It's all cut-and-dried, except for one thing: Libby's husband isn't dead, and she's about to track him down. And thanks to the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy rule, she can't be charged twice for his murder. Double Jeopardy has a singularly seductive revenge premise and, in Judd, one of the most seductive leading ladies to grace the silver screen in recent years. So then why does this thriller feel like it came from the bottom of the Lifetime television movie barrel? Instead of taking a gritty, hard-boiled approach, the film plays up all of Libby's mushy emotions--tellingly, the director here is Bruce Beresford, whose best film, Driving Miss Daisy, is as far from thriller territory as you can get. No matter how stoically or deviously Judd plays her, Libby comes across as a soccer mom with a slight taste for blood. Only in a few scenes, specifically when she tracks her wily husband to his new identity in New Orleans, does Judd get to strut her stuff, stealing an evening gown and crashing his charity auction. Most of the time, though, this thriller offers only a smattering of suspense. Well, at least like Libby, the filmmakers can't be condemned twice for the same crime. With Tommy Lee Jones duplicating his Fugitive role, as Libby's conscientious parole officer. --Mark Englehart
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 Very Good Movie June 26, 2009
Diane Martindale (Blythe, Ca. USA)
Tommy Lee Jones and Ashly Judd both were great in this movie. I've seen the movie so many times I just had to buy it for my personal collection. Now I can watch it any time I want to. I highly recommend this movie, it's very good.
Double Jeopardy February 9, 2009
Kimberly S. Leightner (texas)
I was impressed by everything. The case was as discribed and disk as described very good
 Some Credibility Gaps But A Fun Fugitive-Type Tale February 7, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
With two really good lead actors and people I like to watch (Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd) plus an on-the-run-"Fugitive"-type story, I expected a lot. I wasn't disappointed, either, although it's a bit hokey.
This is a very intense, involving story, a la the above-mentioned "The Fugitive," except this time it's a woman chasing down her ex-husband who set her up for murder. Once again, we see Jones in his familiar role of chasing down the supposed-criminal.
As interesting as the story is, there are some credibility gaps such as why Jones didn't have a picture of the ex-husband in the first place or the always-annoying hesitation-before-shooting at the end which saves the "good guy"...and a few other things like that which are unrealistic.
However, cliches aside, overall it's very entertaining and always fun to watch no matter how many times I see it. Both Judd and Jones are excellent in these kind of roles.
so what if it's not realistic? November 23, 2008
D. K. Stokes
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.
Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd make a great pair November 18, 2008
V. R. Hutter (Durham, NC)
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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