Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy

A suspense movie. Released in 1999. 105 minutes. Bruce Beresford directed it. Starring Ashley Judd. Tommy Lee Jones also appears in it. I have watched it several times only on television screens.

It follows a woman who is falsely accused, imprisoned and paroled to a house under the supervision of her parole officer. After that she struggles to take her child back.

Ashley Judd had starred in Kiss the Girls released in 1997 playing a woman with an anxious face well. Then, two years later, she gave a wonderful performance as a strong mother named Libby who makes up her mind to fight alone for her son. The beautiful performer looked dignified and played stunts. The flick was filled with her charm.

Although Judd looked pretty with a good performance and favorably compared with Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez, yet she did not become a super star, unlike them. I had thought that it was because she was just unlucky, however, I knew one of the reasons when I watched She Said, in which she made a cameo, last and this month at a theater. The reason upset me. She lost her opportunities to appear in films because she offended Harvey Weinstein, a film producer with a huge influence in the industry, who abused female actors desiring to get an acting job and his female subordinates repeatedly and sexually and he hushed up all of his crimes for a long time. I am completely disgusted with the sex maniac who prevented her from getting a good role because she did not accept his lust. The sexual criminal destroyed the lives of Judd and many women. The nasty guy's defenders including some women are also shameless and fool.

Tommy Lee Jones also gave a good and mature performance as the parole officer, Travis. He was 53 years old when it was released. Although he looked relatively older than Tom Cruise when he starred at the age of 53 in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, yet it was because Cruise looked too young for his age. Jones vigorously made a dead run and swam. He looked far more powerful and awesome than most of the men in the same generation as him.

The chemistry is great between Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. The movie is good and worth watching with thrilling stunts.