Release Year: 1999 Rating: R Duration: 105 minutes Other Title: Double condamnation Director: Bruce Beresford Producer: Leonard J. Goldberg Distributor: Paramount Pictures
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
cast
Ashley Judd as Elizabeth Parsons Bruce Greenwood as Nicholas 'Nick' Parsons Tommy Lee Jones as Travis Lehman
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Travis Lehman: Dammit, woman, if you don't get out of this car and go to your kid, I'm going to have you arrested... for stupidity.
_Double_Jeopardy_ boasts a hook that is killer--literally. A woman is framed her husband's murder and is accordingly sentenced to prison. While in the pen, she discovers that her husband is, in fact, alive and kicking. Informed of the "double jeopardy" law--that is, that no person can be tried for the exact same crime twice--she decides to serve her time and, once she's released, _really_ off her not-so-dear hubby. After all, no officer of the law can touch her for committing a crime she has already "committed," no?