Trailer
Plot summary
Libby Parsons lives on Whidbey Island with her husband Nick and their son Matty. Nick buys her favorite sailboat, the Morning Star, and while her friend Angela watches Matty, the couple take a weekend trip. Libby wakes in the night to find blood, a knife and Nick gone. The Coast Guard, after a call from Nick saying he was stabbed, finds Libby on deck with the knife. His body is never found. A two million dollar insurance policy and Nick's embezzlement investigation are treated as her motive, and she is convicted of murder. She asks Angela to adopt Matty.
Cast
- Bruce Campbellas Bartender At Party
- Angela Schneideras Yuppie Girl
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Double Jeopardy (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The newspaper column The Straight Dope picked apart the film's legal premise, observing that "a crime, for double jeopardy purposes, consists of a specific set of facts. Change the facts and you've got a new crime", and that nobody would believe a man convicted of a beating could repeat it unpunished.
- Jodie Foster was attached to star as Libby Parsons and met Bruce Beresford several times about the script, but she departed in December 1997 citing "personal reasons", leaving Paramount scrambling for a replacement with Helen Hunt noted as one option.
- In April 1998 Tommy Lee Jones was reportedly in negotiations to play the co-lead for a fee higher than the $10 million he had earned for U.S. Marshals.
- Bruce Greenwood was cast as Nick Parsons only after being screen tested alongside William Baldwin and Dylan Walsh; initially the producers had wanted Greg Kinnear for the role.
- Paramount Pictures acquired Double Jeopardy in 1995 as a pitch from screenwriters David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook for producer Leonard Goldberg, paying $260,000 against $500,000 for the project.
- Ashley Judd only entered talks for the lead role that same month, after both Helen Hunt and Michelle Pfeiffer had declined it.
- Double Jeopardy began development as a potential project for Harold Becker, who departed to pursue other projects; Luis Mandoki was then attached to the film until he too bowed out.
