Double Jeopardy (1999)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 84
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 63
A talented cast fails to save this unremarkable thriller.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 18
A talented cast fails to save this unremarkable thriller.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 162,349
Movie Info
In this thriller, Ashley Judd plays Elizabeth Parsons, who is convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to a long stretch in prison. After Elizabeth has spent six years behind bars, it turns out that her husband is still alive: he faked his own death as part of an insurance scam, and Elizabeth is soon released. However, Elizabeth's feelings for her husband can hardly be described as warm, and she wants custody of her son. Elizabeth's parole officer (Tommy Lee Jones) wonders if she might
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Cast
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Tommy Lee Jones
Travis Lehman -
Ashley Judd
Elizabeth "Libby" Parso... -
Bruce Greenwood
Nick Parsons -
Annabeth Gish
Angie -
Roma Maffia
Margaret Skolowski -
Davenia McFadden
Evelyn Lake -
Jay Brazeau
Bobby -
Gillian Barber
Rebecca Tingely -
Benjamin Weir
Matty Parsons (age 4) -
Spencer Treat Clark
Matty Parsons (age 11) -
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All Critics (104) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (63) | DVD (25)
A lukewarm outing that mostly just bops from plot point to plot point.
Top CriticThe picture itself is so nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it.
Piles one loony twist on another with dizzying abandon when it's not bogged down drinking up scenery that has been exploited to a fare-thee-well on the big screen.
The way the screenwriters treat the law is in many ways similar to way they treat intelligence of the viewers.
Double Jeoprady has all the legal savvy of the O.J. Simpson jury.
The script, not rooted in logic, leaves certain plot elements unexplained. And when the ending arrives, it's no surprise.
This film takes a potentially interesting premise and makes some mistakes that result in a faulty final product.
This bone-weary material would barely make for a passable episode of Diagnosis: Murder.
Implausible and contrived...it's "The Fugitive," complete with Tommy Lee Jones in essentially the same role.
Too much of Double Jeopardy is illogical.
Too bad you can't shoot the screenwriters.
Unremarkable.
Jeopardy has elements of an enjoyable film, and the various plot twists start out promising, but director Bruce Beresford never quite follows through, and is unable to effectively control the movie's pace and tone.
Anyone with half a brain will leave the theater feeling cheated by its cockamamie premise and unoriginal styling.
It attempts to be both prison picture and murder mystery, without really succeeding at either.
What you don't get is tense, credible plotting.
Stacked up against the film is a pile of implausibilities that it simply doesn't possess the thrills or momentum to distract a viewer from.
Whether this riot of unrepentant trashiness strikes you as tediously ridiculous or brainlessly amusing is probably a matter of mood.
A poorly made thriller, reeking from conventionality and lacking suspense.
A well-made thriller, to be sure, but just about as banal as they come.
Audience Reviews for Double Jeopardy
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- Travis Lehman: We spotted the Parsons woman in the Quarter last night. She got away. I just came by to find out if you'd heard from her.
- Nick Parsons: Not a peep.
- Travis Lehman: Do you have any idea why she's fixated her lunacy on you?
- Nick Parsons: Well, the world's full of crazy people, am I right?
- Travis Lehman: Oh, yes, you are right. Truer words were never spoken. Those are nice pictures there. Did your kids do them?
- Nick Parsons: Uh, no. Those pictures are by a very great artist named Kandinsky.
- Travis Lehman: Oh.
- Nick Parsons: Why do I think you already knew that?
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