Back home

Double Jeopardy

1412 votes

Producing House

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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1999-09-24

Runtime: 105 mins

Director: Bruce Beresford

Writer: David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Original title: Double Jeopardy

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG

Production Countries: Germany, United States of America

Reviews

S

SoSmooth1982
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.
2023-05-14

J

JPV852
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**
2022-03-24

D

Dark Jedi
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.
2013-02-28

Recommendations

Hussy
1.8

Hussy

1966-02-25

16-year-old Tachiko (Kimiko Asuka) discovers the true nature of her father's wife, Fumie (Michiko Sa

In My Dreams
3.2

In My Dreams

2015-10-20

Natalie and Nick are frustrated with their luck in romance. After tossing coins into a fountain, the

Bridal Boot Camp
2.9

Bridal Boot Camp

2017-04-13

When pretty dress-maker Andy joins a motley crew of brides-to-be for a grueling bridal boot camp, wh

The Return of Martin Guerre
3.4

The Return of Martin Guerre

1982-05-14

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B

Tod der Engel
0

Tod der Engel

1992-11-09

Gerhard Wismuth is said to have killed his two children. The press takes up the case and does good b

Bluebeard
3.2

Bluebeard

1963-01-25

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi

Danton
3.4

Danton

1983-01-12

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793

Scream 3
3

Scream 3

2000-02-04

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Wo

The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2.8

The Heart Is a Dark Forest

2007-12-27

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

Parole Girl
3

Parole Girl

1933-03-04

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas

The Shawshank Redemption
4.4

The Shawshank Redemption

1994-09-23

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr

Strange Days
3.5

Strange Days

1995-10-13

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali

People on Sunday
3.6

People on Sunday

1930-02-04

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit

12 Angry Men
4.3

12 Angry Men

1957-04-10

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a

Summer '04
2.8

Summer '04

2006-10-11

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly

Wild at Heart
3.5

Wild at Heart

1990-08-17

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s

Good Will Hunting
4.1

Good Will Hunting

1997-12-05

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT.

Johnny Handsome
3.2

Johnny Handsome

1989-09-12

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol

Internees of Kampili
0

Internees of Kampili

1960-09-29

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing

Ocean's Eleven
3.7

Ocean's Eleven

2001-12-07

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next pl