Double Jeopardy 1999

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 105 min

genre: crime

theme: chase

director: Bruce Beresford

Score: 6 / 10

Double Jeopardy is a 1999 American crime thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, and Bruce Greenwood. The film is about a woman wrongfully imprisoned for murder who, while eluding her parole officer, tracks down her husband who had framed her.

Plot

Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) and her husband Nick (Bruce Greenwood) are wealthy residents of Whidbey Island, Washington. With her best friend, Angela Green (Annabeth Gish) offering to look after their 4-year-old son, Matty (Benjamin Weir), Libby and Nick go sailing for the weekend. After a romantic day, Libby falls asleep. She awakens to find blood everywhere and her husband missing. The Coast Guard patrol, having received a distress call from Nick, arrives and finds Libby holding a bloody knife on deck.

Cast

More details

author	David Weisberg Douglas S. Cook
contentLocation	San Francisco Washington
director	Bruce Beresford
editor	Mark Warner
genre	adventure crime thriller
keywords	arrest best friend boarding school car ferry car keys claim coast guard coast guard patrol dead husband department of motor vehicles distress call dmv door handle double jeopardy double jeopardy clause fifth amendment to the united states constitution frame gas explosion georgia halfway house insurance policy kill lafayette cemetery no. 3 law professor life insurance luxury hotel murder parole parole officer roll-on/roll-off romantic run sail sexual intercourse shoot true identity united states coast guard walk washington state whidbey island
musicBy	Normand Corbeil
producer	Leonard Goldberg
publisher	Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	New Orleans Vancouver
theme	chase legal legal thriller women in prison