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Summary: Completely False
Review: I recently saw this on a plane and still cannot get over what I saw. Escapist movies aren't supposed to be realistic, but the entire premise of this movie is based on a spectacularly erroneous misunderstanding of the law (yes, I'm a lawyer). Double jeopardy would, yes, WOULD have applied if Judd's character killed her husband after she jumped parole, because the facts and circumstances of that crime would have been completely different from the earlier "murder." Only if the facts and circumstances were identical would double jeopardy be relevant. A hopelessly idiotic revenge fantasy.
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Summary: ASHLEY JUDD TOMMY LEE JONES DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Review: Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) has just been convicted of murdering her husband when she didn't. But when she finds out he is still alive and out there, she sets out to kill him - she's got nothing to fear cos according to the Double Jeopardy law - you can't be convicted of the same crime twice.Ashley Judd is 10x bigger part than Tommy Lee Jones - her acting is totally superb. Un-missable stuff.
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Summary: predictable movie
Review: This is basically a "Fugitive" movie with a female as the lead character played by Ashley Judd. Tommy Lee Jones revived his role that he does best by tracking down the wanted person only to have a change of heart subsequently as he knew for certain that the wanted person is innocent. It's interesting to have the Australian director, Bruce Beresford to direct this kind of genre movie who is probably better known for his directional work in "Driving Miss Daisy". In terms of progressive story telling, this movie delivered but for us who are expecting more punch & more uncalled for surprise(s), this movie is certain to disappoint. Many times, the bad person in the movie had got the opportunity to kill Lippy (Ashley Judd) but every time, he procrastinated & in the end, it's the good guy that saved the day. Even the fighting sequences weren't different from other thriller movies. Overall, this is an Ashley Judd's movie as Tommy Lee Jones' screen time appearance is secondary & he is more like a supporting actor rather than a lead male actor but still, I guess his name sells the movie. For a quiet night viewing, go for it but if you are looking for that extra bit more, find something else.
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Summary: A great thriller with superb acting
Review: Since I saw the previews for "Double Jeopardy" when it first came out in theatres, I wanted to see the movie. I finally got to see it and it was a great movie to say the least. A businessman (Bruce Greenwood) cheats death and frames his wife at the same time by making his wife, Elizabeth (Ashley Judd) think that he's dead. The police show up and she's holding the knife with blood on it, so they think that she killed her husband. She goes to jail and something happens which makes her suspect that her husband is still alive. Of course, this makes her want to get out of jail even more so she can try to find her husband and her son. She also hears about something called Double Jeopardy which really puts some suspense in this movie. "Double Jeopardy" is a great movie and I think it was one of the best movies of 1999. Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones (Travis Lehman, Elizabeth's parole officer) both do a great job of acting in this movie. Their great acting along with the movie's plot and the great suspense make this movie all the more compelling. I recommend anybody who likes great thriller/suspense movies to get "Double Jeopardy." You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Entertaining, and a Great Tommy Jones Piece
Review: At this price, its a great buy.
The film is well written, well acted; Tommy Lee Jones is superb as usual, and despite Ashley Judd being an acceptable actress, and Bruce Beresford doing the Directing, this is a gem of a film. Fun, intense, and a great film of " what goes around comes around" ... Revenge be damned, Hubby is legally dead, and he wrecked his wifes life, so he gets ( story-wise) what he deserves.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: DOUBLE JEOPARDY may seem a bit far-fetched in places, but Judd's performance make it watchable and entertaining. Judd plays a woman found guilty of murdering her husband only to discover six years on that he is in fact alive! Tommy Lee Jones plays her parole officer and is also entertaining to watch. There are a number of tense moments which help keep the film at a watchable pace (eg. the car going overboard, being chased by the police, looking for her son in the graveyard, ending up in a coffin etc etc. It's quite rare for me to want to see a film twice, but this is one of those films you can watch again and again. I was happy to add it to my library, and it is reasonably priced too.
Australia's Bruce Beresford directed this film, and I would say he has done a very impressive job. The DVD includes a small featurette on the making which is enjoyable to watch. Beresford explains why he filmed some scenes a certain way (eg. Judd's anguish at discovering her husband is still alive).
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Summary: This is rehabilitation?
Review: Jones and Judd are powerful antagonists in this film of "women's empowerment". Judd, as "Libby Parsons", awakes to find a trail of blood leading from bed to brine and is convicted of her husband's murder. The evidence is hard to refute. The two were alone on a yacht off Seattle and the Coast Guard arrives while she stands with a bloody knife in her grasp. At sentencing, Judd assigns her son Matthew to family friend, Annabeth Gish. Gish, however, has an even deeper interest - she's having an affair with Judd's husband Nick [Bruce Greenwood]. Oh, yes. He's still alive after all!
Judd, twigging to Nick's survival, now sets herself a quest. Advised that she can't be tried twice for the same crime - no "double jeopardy" - she becomes a model prisoner. Eager for parole [nobody keeps a woman incarcerated for husband-murder any more], she exercises with stern intent. She trains in ways to make an Olympics try-out blush from inadequacy. Jogging in the rain [in Gig Harbour?], building up her timing, coordination and . . . The remainder of the film allows Judd to reveal just what she might have picked up in her "Washington State Correctional" rehabilitation programme. She begins to apply them almost as soon as she's placed in a parolee halfway house run by Tommy Lee Jones.
Jones, at his best irascible self, lays down the rules for behaviour - otherwise it's "back inside". Judd, burning with desire to retrieve her son, flaunts his regimen immediately and the chase is on! Judd dodges and twists in one breath-catching scene after another until the pair reaches New Orleans. What a backdrop for chase scenes! Wrought-iron grillwork! Jazz concerts for funerals! Cemeteries of vast stretches of above-ground tombs for capering around and hiding behind or in! Judd pursues her son with intense dedication, especially after what she learned of Gish's fate in trusting Greenwood. The result is a captivating sequence in the cemetery involving both husband and son. Or does it? All that exercise at Gig Island proves useful as Judd sheds much of her feminine mystique to become a female Clint Eastwood. The final confrontation is rife with surprises.
That the law actually wouldn't let Judd off scot free for "killing" Greenwood twice is almost irrelevant. This film sparkles with the personalities of Judd and Jones. Both grace any film they make - together, the result is almost overwhelming. Jones' droll delivery in tense moments provides the perfect leit motif where needed. There's not much humour in this story, but Tommy Lee Jones can produce effects that overcome the sombre. If the improbabilities of plot are ignored and the viewer lets the personalities dominate, this is an enjoyable film. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
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Summary: A seriously guilty pleasure
Review: Yes, the premise of this movie is ludicrous (double jeopardy does not apply if the person you were framed for murdering in fact faked their death). Yes, it has a distinct "processed-cheese" feel to it and shamelessly steals whole chunks from other movies, including "The Fugitive" (Tommy Lee Jones is once again in dogged pursuit of the refugee who was falsely accused of murder) and "Kiss the Girls" (Ashley Judd is once again the strong, determined heroine, and the two movies' poster art is virtually identical). Yes, Ashley Judd's stint in prison is treated as a minor inconvenience and she emerges from it looking like a fashion model rather than someone who did six years of hard time.
But there's just something engrossing about it. The actors are far better than they really need to be: Jones manages to keep his trademark crusty world-weariness seeming fresh rather than the patched-together retread it actually is; Judd has a serene, steely conviction even in the most idiotic, improbable scenes; and the ever-underrated Bruce Greenwood has a ball playing Judd's beyond-sleazy husband. (He reminds me a bit of another underrated actor, Christopher McDonald, in that his patrician good looks can be similarly molded to play scumbags, dream men, or scumbags-in-dream-men's clothing with great ease.) Also, it has undeniable appeal as a female-revenge, anguished-mama story, and it has fine cinematography.
There are a couple of scenes that are worth singling out. For instance, when Judd's character, Libby, calls her traitorous friend Angela, who has adopted Libby's small son, from prison and in the process finds out that her "murdered" husband is very much alive, she walks away from the phone in a kind of numb shock and disbelief. You'd expect the camera to pull in for a tight closeup of her face, but instead it pulls back and shows her as just one more person in a crowded prison hallway, emphasizing her insignificance in the eyes of the outside world. Also, when Libby meets a boy who she thinks might be her son, she merely stops and gazes at him with inexpressible joy and longing, only to be jerked out of the moment when he turns out not to be her son after all -- it's a startling moment that belongs in a much better movie.
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Summary: not too bad
Review: The movie isn't too bad but has that predictable ending of course but then again, its not all about the ending, its how we got there that counts as well. basic setup is wife of a successful husband is living life to the fullest. Perfect home, perfect child (at least from what we know), perfect husband (but we know thats not true). The couple go on a boat and spend the night together. She wakes up with blood all over her and a knife near the edge of the boat. She of course is found by the coast guard the instant she picks up the knife. Shes found guilty of murder and is taken to jail and loses her child to the state. She soon finds out that her husband has been alive and taking care of their kid with the help of someone else that we met at the beginning of the movie. The problem with she has for extracting her revenge since she can't be charged of murdering him twice comes from the parole officer who wants her to stay out of trouble. As i said, not a bad movie, yes predictable ending, but knowing the whole story is worth watching it.
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Summary: Double Jeopardy
Review: Double Jeopardy (1999)runs 1 hour and 46 minutes. Bruce Beresford is the director, with Tommy Lee Jones as the primary actor and Ashley Judd as the primary actress. Some awards that were won are favorite actress and best female performance (Ashley Judd). The setting is in the 20th century starting around the oceon, then in jail, then in Louisiana. Some themes that are brought out by Double Jeopardy are mother, recognition, redemption, freedom, and vengeance. The plot of the movie is that you cannot be convicted of the same crime twice, which is the rule of double jeopardy. If someone is convicted of a crime, they do not have to serve the sentence twice. The genre is crime, suspense, and thriller. This movie is in color. I'm not sure if there is a soundtrack. On a scale from one to five, I would rate this movie a five. I think this movie was very well thoughtout and the actresses and actors played their parts very well. It is one of those movies that you don't know what is going to happen until the very end. This is a movie that really catches your attention. The plot is one that you would not expect toward the end of the movie or even throughout the movie. I recommened if you have not seen this movie, take the time to sit and watch it. Keep in mind though you can't miss parts of the movie, because every scene of the movie leads up to the end.
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