A Review Of The Film "Double Jeopardy" - By: steamtown

Double Jeopardy is a film that was released in 1999
that was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by
David Weisburg and Douglas Cook.

With two really good lead actors and people I like to
watch (The very versatile Tommy Lee Jones and the
beautiful Ashley Judd)

It stares Tommy Lee Jones as Travis Lehman, a parole
officer, Ashley Judd as Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons,
Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood as Nicholas "Nick" Parsons,
Annabeth Gish as Angela "Angi" Green who stares as
Libby's best friend and Benjamin Weir as her son Matty.

This is a very intense story, a type of "The Fugitive,"
except this time it's a woman chasing down her ex-husband
who set her up for murder. She gets convicted and spends
several years in prison, and then emerges bent on finding
her husband and son so as to take her revenge on the
former and rescue the latter.

The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation
of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy, A fellow prison
inmate advises Libby she could kill her husband in the
middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless
to do anything about it because of double jeopardy,

Libby Parsons (Judd) is a happily married woman living
an upper-crust lifestyle with her husband Nick and her
son Matty However, during an overnight sailing trip,
she wakes up to an empty boat, covered with her
husband's blood and holding a knife. The police,
putting two and two together, formally charge Libby
for her husband's murder, and she is convicted in
the subsequent trial.

Looking at a long prison sentence in front of her, she
asks her best friend Angie to formally adopt Matty and
take care of him until she is free once again.[There is
that old saying that states that a women's worst enemy
is sometimes her best friend,]

By chance Libby finds out that Nick is still alive and
is living with her best friend.She also discovers,through
another inmate, the loophole found in the law of double
jeopardy. She starts a physical fitness program that will
make her ready to take action once she is released.
Six years later, Libby is granted a reprieve from her
sentence and sent to a halfway house supervised
by parole officer Travis.

Libby escapes the halfway house and begins a cross
-country trek to track down her conniving husband,
and more importantly, to be reunited with her son.
Of course, such an action violates the conditions of
her parole, which sends Travis hot on her trail.

Although there are many inconsistencies though out this
film and if you can ignore and not question some of the
obvious misstates, like the life insurance company still
paying out the $2 million to the policy-holder's convicted
murderer, and just watch this film for entertainment
purposes only, then you will thoroughly enjoy this film.

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