Actors: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, and Annabeth Gish
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Double Jeopardy
A Happily married Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) wakes up to find blood all over the boat she spent the night on with her husband. She is tried and convicted of the murder of her husband. In prison she learns that Nick is still alive. Also she learns that she can't be tried for the same crime twice. Six years later she paroled. And with the help of her parole officer Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones) she sets about finding her son and unraveling the truth about the murder.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
Ashley Judd plays Libby Parsons, who seems to have the perfect life with her husband and son. But when she discovers that the husband she's convicted of murdering staged his own "death" and framed her, she violates her parole to find him and prove her innocence, chased by her parole officer Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones).
--Becky Yost, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Double Jeopardy
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- wrongly accused clearing name
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, wavy (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
Water?
Yes
Water:
- sail boat
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
