A Review Of The Film "Double Jeopardy"

Double Jeopardy is a film that was released in 1999 that was directed by Bruce Beresford and written byDavid 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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