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:  222 reviews
Sales Rank: 3429
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 222
 Barbara March 3, 2010
Barbara J. Bushart (MEMPHIS, TN, US)
Great item. It was as described. Very fast shipping. Actually I rec'd it before an item I ordered 2 days prior. I highly recommed this seller and I will order from them again very soon.
kumquat February 20, 2010
J. Wong (Northridge,Calif.)
A good movie with alot of action and drama. Highly recommend this movie. Tommy Lee Jones and Ashly Judd are excellent movie stars in this movie.
 Entertaining February 13, 2010
Willy D. Reviewer (San Francisco,CA)
Anything with Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones has gotta be good.
This film will not disappoint.
 Mom on the Attack November 17, 2009
Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
This could have been a good movie, but it mostly fails to connect with the viewer. Ashley Judd is framed for the murder of her husband, who actually did the framing, and is still alive. What is worse, while the Judd character is doing hard state prison time, her husband has custody of her son, has assumed a new identity, is living off of $2 million in life insurance proceeds (paid on his own death), and sleeping with Judd's best friend. Judd discovers all this by happenstance, and is suddenly hating life and most of all hating her husband.
Judd gets out of prison on parole and is shortly in pursuit of her erstwhile husband. All of the foregoing occurs in the first 15 minutes of the film, so these are not spoilers. The problem becomes Judd's behavior -- it is spectacularly stupid, short-sighted, and unrealistic, not to mention careless. You can almost justify it by saying that she has lost her sanity (understandable) but the problem is that most of us cannot connect with a protagonist who is 'round the bend. There are some amusing and interesting parts to this film, but mostly it is a clean miss. Tommy Lee Jones reprises (almost) his role in The Fugitive by trying to track Judd down (in this flick he is her former parole officer) but really, this part does not really work either. On the plus side, the ending is exciting and credible, and does much to redeem this film.
Three stars. RJB.
Worth Seeing November 16, 2009
drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
The basic story is hoary with age, but , nonetheless, this is a satisfying film, well worth seeing. Ashley Judd does the heavy lifting in the film, and does it with style. Tommy Lee Jones, while equally billed, supports her ably, though little is required of him but a reprise of roles he had often played even as of the date of this film. A number of roles are filled in such way as to add character to the film much to its improvement. For the most part, it moves along with sufficient action to keep it interesting, although only Judd's part is given more than a single dimension.
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