Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014437803832
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledGermanSubtitledSwedishSubtitledTurkishSubtitledDanishSubtitledPolishSubtitledIcelandicSubtitledDutchSubtitledArabicSubtitledFinnishSubtitledRomanianSubtitledBulgarianSubtitledCzechDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundHungarianDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 05, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1999

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Editorial Review:

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




Rating: - Rubbish
Not only did they get the concept of double jeopardy wrong - Ashley Judd's character actually could have been tried as the murder of her husband would not legally have been considered the same crime - but they also made a terrible movie. The ending is a movie cliche that was used to get the writer out of a bind and tie up the lose ends.

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Rating: - Great Saturday Night Film
This is a super Saturday night film, or perhaps for Sunday evening when there is work the next day. Sit back enjoy.

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Rating: - 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.

Give me any film that star's Tommy or Ashley and I'll watch it.

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Rating: - escapist fun
I quite enjoyed this film despite myself. It's true the film is really just a collection of cliches and the double jeopardy point of law nonsense but I still felt inspired by the sheer unwavering determination of the Ashley Judd character. I also found her beauty to be quite idiosyncratic and captivating. Silly really, but there you go.

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Rating: - This is rehabilitation?
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 ... Read More

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