Double Jeopardy
A woman framed for her husband’s murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can’t be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Genre:Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- Runtime:105 minutes
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones : Travis
Ashley Judd : Libby
Benjamin Weir : Matty – Age 4
Jay Brazeau : Bobby
Bruce Greenwood : Nick
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Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) and his wife Elizabeth, known as Libby, (Ashley Judd), wealthy residents of Whidbey Island, borrow a friend’s yacht and set off sailing for the weekend. After consuming pizza, Coca-Cola & some wine, Libby falls asleep and wakes up to find her husband missing and blood all over her hands, clothes, legs, and the boat’s floors. A Coast Guard vessel appears and Libby is spotted holding a bloody knife she found lying on the deck. She is arrested, humiliated, tried, and convicted for the murder of her husband in the media.
Libby asks her best friend, Angela Green (Annabeth Gish), to look after her son Matty (Benjamin Weir) for the duration of her prison sentence. While talking with Matty during a phone call from prison, Libby hears him exclaim “Daddy!” right before the line goes dead. Libby realizes that Nick could still be alive and living with their son and attempts to get some investigative help. Distraught by the futility of these attempts, she is consoled by a fellow inmate who suggests that she serve her sentence and wait for parole, upon which time she could track down and kill Nick without consequences due to the legal doctrine of double jeopardy. She tries to get more information using the internet at a local library on Angela Green.
Libby is paroled after six years and begins searching for Nick and Matty while living in a halfway house under the supervision of Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones), a parole officer. Libby violates her curfew and is caught breaking into a building to try and get Angela’s records, but manages to escape from Lehman and continue her search. Recognizing an art work in a newspaper photo and tracing it through a dealer’s database leads her to New Orleans, where she finds Nick living under an assumed name. Libby confronts him during a party at his hotel and demands he return Matty to her in exchange for her silence about his real identity. Nick agrees to bring Matty to a meeting in a cemetery. However, Nick uses a decoy boy to distract Libby, knock her unconscious and lock her in a mausoleum. Libby wakes up and, owing to a handgun she had somehow snatched from Lehman, manages to escape. Read more
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