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68
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63
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Double Jeopardy
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, a scene of sexuality and some violence
Starring
Tommy Lee Jones,
Ashley Judd,
Bruce Greenwood,
Annabeth Gish,
Spencer Treat Clark,
and
Roma Maffia
Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons (Judd) survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer (Jones). (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Weisberg
Douglas Cook
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Bruce Beresford
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 22, 2000
Video: February 22, 2000
Theatrical: September 24, 1999
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Canada / Germany |

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75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There's something heartening about a film that aspires to do nothing but entertain -- and does.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Entertainment made well enough that you can overlook its absurdities.
70
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
A solo "Thelma and Louise" crossed with a gender-reversed "The Fugitive" with a dry twist of "Fletch."

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Loaded down with credibility problems.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not a successful thriller, but with some nice dramatic scenes along with the dumb mystery and contrived conclusion.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
There are a few ingenious zig zags in its otherwise by-the-numbers plot...but what keeps you interested... is the sheer movie-star presence of the actors in the lead roles.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Judd is pretty much on her own - an assignment she mostly can handle with aplomb.

55
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
Jones' pursuit of Judd follows the tried-but-true plotline of winding cat-and-mouse chases that lead to big climaxes.
50
Film.com
Robert Horton
A generally dumb movie with a smart, appealing, gutsy leading lady.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
On a simplistic level, the movie works as a revenge fantasy...Yet anybody who thought about the movie for two minutes would have to conclude it couldn't happen.

50
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
It's just too bad that you can see everything coming from a mile away.
50
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Bad in a good way if you appreciate this sort of silly thriller.
50
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
An adequate popcorn matinee flick that's anchored by Judd's wonderful lead performance -- a performance that is better than the film earns or deserves.

50
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
For all its familiar conventions and hoary improbabilities, Double Jeopardy is a relatively efficient model of its kind.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Preposterous, if diverting, revenge fantasy that rivals Rambo in sheer narrative chutzpah and vigilantism.
50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping.

40
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
An intermittently engaging thriller.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Whether this riot of unrepentant trashiness strikes you as tediously ridiculous or brainlessly amusing is probably a matter of mood.

40
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense.

40
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
All promise and no payoff.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
So riddled with plot holes and implausible actions, you can't help feeling insulted by it.

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
So nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it.

33
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A carnival of stupid coincidences, paper-thin characterizations, and inept staging, lighting and montage.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.''

30
Austin Chronicle
Sarah Hepola
Predictable piffle, a comically unbelievable story that leaves almost no impression except what a sham our legal system is.

30
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Judd is slumming again in ths lame suspense yarn that could barely pass as a TV quickie without the bankable names of Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and director Bruce Beresford.
30
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
Seems to be an exercise not unlike the phone-booth stuffing of the '50s; namely, let's see how much plot we can fit into a movie before it bursts.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
In this inept thriller...the script is a coloring book, and the director's careful to stay within the lines.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Beginning with an intriguing premise, which it manages to squander in record time, it turns out to be a thinly imagined, thinly acted, silly exercise in car crashes, chases and nasty outbursts of generic violence.

11
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
It has no subtlety, no shadings, and no suspense, and might as well not have a screenplay.

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