Rotten
This movie should be exhumed and executed again!
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Double Jeopardy
Murder isn't always a crime.
1999 · 1h 45m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Overview
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.
Director and cast
- Bruce Beresford Director
- Tommy Lee Jones as Travis Lehman
- Ashley Judd as Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons
- Bruce Greenwood as Nicholas "Nick" Parsons / Jonathan Devereaux
- Annabeth Gish as Angela "Angie" Green
- Benjamin Weir as Matty - Age 4
- Jay Brazeau as Bobby
- Spencer Treat Clark as Matty Parsons - Age 11
- John Maclaren as Rudy
- Roma Maffia as Margaret Skolowski
- Tracy Vilar Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
27%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Double Jeopardy principally works as a suspense film for an early autumn evening.
Keith Simanton, Seattle Times
Rotten
One of the dumbest chase thrillers ever to stumble onto the big screen!
Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News
Rotten
A muddled thriller.
Moira MacDonald, Film.com
Rotten
The result has a drawback common to such movies: too much screen time devoted to the conceit when anyone who has seen the coming-attractions trailer knows it already.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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