Double Jeopardy is a film that was released in 1999

that was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by

David Weisburg and Douglas Cook.

With two really good lead actors and people I like to

watch (The very versatile Tommy Lee Jones and the

beautiful Ashley Judd)

It stares Tommy Lee Jones as Travis Lehman, a parole

officer, Ashley Judd as Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons,

Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood as Nicholas "Nick" Parsons,

Annabeth Gish as Angela "Angi" Green who stares as

Libby's best friend and Benjamin Weir as her son Matty.

This is a very intense story, a type of "The Fugitive,"

except this time it's a woman chasing down her ex-husband

who set her up for murder. She gets convicted and spends

several years in prison, and then emerges bent on finding

her husband and son so as to take her revenge on the

former and rescue the latter.

The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation

of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy, A fellow prison

inmate advises Libby she could kill her husband in the

middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless

to do anything about it because of double jeopardy,

Libby Parsons (Judd) is a happily married woman living

an upper-crust lifestyle with her husband Nick and her

son Matty However, during an overnight sailing trip,

she wakes up to an empty boat, covered with her

husband's blood and holding a knife. The police,

putting two and two together, formally charge Libby

for her husband's murder, and she is convicted in

the subsequent trial.

Looking at a long prison sentence in front of her, she

asks her best friend Angie to formally adopt Matty and

take care of him until she is free once again.[There is

that old saying that states that a women's worst enemy

is sometimes her best friend,]

By chance Libby finds out that Nick is still alive and

is living with her best friend.She also discovers,through

another inmate, the loophole found in the law of double

jeopardy. She starts a physical fitness program that will

make her ready to take action once she is released.

Six years later, Libby is granted a reprieve from her

sentence and sent to a halfway house supervised

by parole officer Travis.

Libby escapes the halfway house and begins a cross

-country trek to track down her conniving husband,

and more importantly, to be reunited with her son.

Of course, such an action violates the conditions of

her parole, which sends Travis hot on her trail.

Although there are many inconsistencies though out this

film and if you can ignore and not question some of the

obvious misstates, like the life insurance company still

paying out the $2 million to the policy-holder's convicted

murderer, and just watch this film for entertainment

purposes only, then you will thoroughly enjoy this film.