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Double Jeopardy - Dvd [2000]

DVD ~ Ashley Judd
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  • Actors: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau
  • Directors: Bruce Beresford
  • Writers: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook
  • Producers: Leonard Goldberg, Richard Luke Rothschild
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, German
  • Subtitles: English, German, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Polish, Icelandic, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, Romanian, Bulgarian
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Feb 2001
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000058E3B
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,493 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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 US Constitution'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 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, Amazon.com


Special Features

2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 5
Czech\German\Hungarian
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English German\Dolby Digital Surround Czech Hungarian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Theatrical Trailer
Behind The Scenes Featurette
Arabic\Bulgarian\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Double Trouble, 19 Nov 2003
Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones give fine performances in this almost 5 star thriller. Ashley Judd is framed for her husband's faked murder and when she gets out of prison she determines on revenge. She knows she can kill her husband without fear of reprisal due to the 'double jeopardy' law which means she can't be tried for the same crime twice. This intriguing plot line makes the film predictable but there are plenty of thrills and spills to keep up the suspense, and Ashley Judd is always pleasant to look at. Tommy Lee Jones is under rated in my opinion as I have rarely seen him give less than a top-notch performance. His naturalistic 'hard man' characterisation balances Ashley Judd's more delicate performance and the budding romance between the two leads is nicely developed. I like the way Ashley Judd is able to play gritty roles without losing a scrap of appealing femininity - her soft but determined features help.
This is a pleasant, escapist movie which lays on the drama and pathos with a trowel but doesn't lose the plot along the way.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Rubble Jeopardy, 11 Dec 2003
By Ben (UK, essex) - See all my reviews
This film is certainly NOT brilliant.
OK it's NOT certainly rubbish either - It's somewhere in between
It doesn't really belong on the top shelves, but then again it shouldn't be tossed in the bargain bin.......

It's mediocre, average, watchable.....

It has been done, which is a first drawback - It is a weak mimic of 'The Fugitive.'
It is quite unbelievable that it can really happen.
It is v-e-r-y long.

But it does have some good thrilling action,
some very good suspense.
It is emotional - she has been framed for a murder, she didn't commit it...... But she is sent to prison (Ashley Judd) Then once she leaves (tommy Lee Jones) takes her in to a home, she escapes, runs off then a CHASE ........... all your usual action mush.(The reason she runs away is to find her son Matty, and her husband who framed her aswell.)

But it is not rubbish - good acting, suspense and thrills do make it watchable - If it's on TV, rentable? - Maybe. Buyable - NO!

There I've made my point - AVERAGE FILM!

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This is rehabilitation?, 1 Jan 2005
By Stephen A. Haines (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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Jones and Judd are powerful antagonists in this film of "women's empowerment". Judd, as "Libby Parsons", awakes to find a trail of blood leading from bed to brine and is convicted of her husband's murder. The evidence is hard to refute. The two were alone on a yacht off Seattle and the Coast Guard arrives while she stands with a bloody knife in her grasp. At sentencing, Judd assigns her son Matthew to family friend, Annabeth Gish. Gish, however, has an even deeper interest - she's having an affair with Judd's husband Nick [Bruce Greenwood]. Oh, yes. He's still alive after all!

Judd, twigging to Nick's survival, now sets herself a quest. Advised that she can't be tried twice for the same crime - no "double jeopardy" - she becomes a model prisoner. Eager for parole [nobody keeps a woman incarcerated for husband-murder any more], she exercises with stern intent. She trains in ways to make an Olympics try-out blush from inadequacy. Jogging in the rain [in Gig Harbour?], building up her timing, coordination and . . . The remainder of the film allows Judd to reveal just what she might have picked up in her "Washington State Correctional" rehabilitation programme. She begins to apply them almost as soon as she's placed in a parolee halfway house run by Tommy Lee Jones.

Jones, at his best irascible self, lays down the rules for behaviour - otherwise it's "back inside". Judd, burning with desire to retrieve her son, flaunts his regimen immediately and the chase is on! Judd dodges and twists in one breath-catching scene after another until the pair reaches New Orleans. What a backdrop for chase scenes! Wrought-iron grillwork! Jazz concerts for funerals! Cemeteries of vast stretches of above-ground tombs for capering around and hiding behind or in! Judd pursues her son with intense dedication, especially after what she learned of Gish's fate in trusting Greenwood. The result is a captivating sequence in the cemetery involving both husband and son. Or does it? All that exercise at Gig Island proves useful as Judd sheds much of her feminine mystique to become a female Clint Eastwood. The final confrontation is rife with surprises.

That the law actually wouldn't let Judd off scot free for "killing" Greenwood twice is almost irrelevant. This film sparkles with the personalities of Judd and Jones. Both grace any film they make - together, the result is almost overwhelming. Jones' droll delivery in tense moments provides the perfect leit motif where needed. There's not much humour in this story, but Tommy Lee Jones can produce effects that overcome the sombre. If the improbabilities of plot are ignored and the viewer lets the personalities dominate, this is an enjoyable film. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absoultely fantastic
The DVD arrived in excellent condition, The film itself is first class with TLJ at his very best, had seen this film 2 or 3 times before i bought it, would highly reccommend any... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good film!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good thriller and story
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1.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Film
Judd was excellent, and I love Tommy Lee Jones, I thought double Jeopardy was brilliant, all of it was excellent especially the cematary part of the film. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Watchable thriller.
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2.0 out of 5 stars SHARES MORE THAN ONE CHORD WITH THE FUGITIVE...
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1.0 out of 5 stars I'd rather trap my arm in a bacon slicer......
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