Double Jeopardy is a 1999 thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. The film is about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.
Wealthy residents of Whidbey Island Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) and his wife Elizabeth (Ashley Judd), known as Libby, borrow a friend's yacht and set off sailing for the weekend. After dinner, and an unsatisfying love making session, Libby falls asleep. She wake...
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Double Jeopardy is a 1999 thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd. The film is about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.
Wealthy residents of Whidbey Island Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) and his wife Elizabeth (Ashley Judd), known as Libby, borrow a friend's yacht and set off sailing for the weekend. After dinner, and an unsatisfying love making session, Libby falls asleep. She wakes 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 in the media, tried, and convicted for the murder of her husband.
Libby asks her best friend, Angela Green (Annabeth Gish), to look after her 4-year-old son, Matty (Benjamin Weir), for the duration of her prison sentence. On a phone call with Matty from prison, Libby hears a door open in the background, then Matty...
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