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Double Jeopardy (1999)

Double Jeopardy (1999)

R 105 minutes EN Drama , Thriller , Mystery
Murder isn't always a crime.
Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest; however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superiors and law enforcement colleagues.
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Ashley Judd
Libby Parsons
Tommy Lee Jones
Travis Lehman
Bruce Greenwood
Nick Parsons
Annabeth Gish
Angie Green
Benjamin Weir
Matty Parsons, Age 4
Jay Brazeau
Bobby Long
Roma Maffia
Margaret Skolowski
Gillian Barber
Rebecca Tingely
Ed Evanko
Warren

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The most positive review

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.

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The most negative review

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.

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Production companies: Paramount Pictures, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG
Production countries: Germany, United States of America
Budget: $70,000,000
Revenue: $177,841,558

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