Une femme accusée du meurtre de son mari soupçonne qu'il est toujours en vie ; comme elle a déjà été jugée pour ce crime, elle ne peut être poursuivie de nouveau si elle le trouve et le tue.Une femme accusée du meurtre de son mari soupçonne qu'il est toujours en vie ; comme elle a déjà été jugée pour ce crime, elle ne peut être poursuivie de nouveau si elle le trouve et le tue.Une femme accusée du meurtre de son mari soupçonne qu'il est toujours en vie ; comme elle a déjà été jugée pour ce crime, elle ne peut être poursuivie de nouveau si elle le trouve et le tue.
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations
- Rudy
- (as John MacLaren)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesJodie Foster landed the role of Libby after Meg Ryan and Brooke Shields both declined, but was replaced by Ashley Judd when Foster became pregnant.
- GaffesDouble jeopardy only applies to crimes tried by the same state or the federal government. If a murder occurred in a different state, it is tried independently of what may have occurred in another state. In practice, if it is discovered that the crime for which a person was convicted did not occur, the conviction would be vacated.
- Citations
[Nick threatens Libby as Libby threatens him with the law of double jeopardy]
Nick Parsons: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
Libby Parsons: No they won't. It's called double jeopardy. I learned a few things in prison, Nick. I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras and they can't touch me.
Travis Lehman: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.
Despite that fact that the whole film is summed up in the title I decided to watch it anyway. So really there is very little drama for much of the film as we all know what she's doing and where the film is going. The plot could have been lifted from any number of video thrillers - all it needed was a little nudity and it could have been an erotic thriller for late night TV! As it stood, the bigger budget, higher production values and bigger stars helped the film actually rise a little above the material and seem to be much glossier and impressive than it actually was. The stunts and effects worked well and the direction was of a higher calibre than you'd see on the bottom shelf, but it is still a very ordinary thriller if you strip all the polish away.
The cast try hard but they have little to work with. An unnecessary role from Tommy Lee Jones helps keep the film's pace up by turning it into a cat and mouse chase of sorts, but mostly it is pretty dull. Judd is OK in the lead but doesn't do anything to justify her fee I reckon. Support from Mafia is so lame that it looks like she is almost falling asleep while giving her lines! The film relies on pace and tension which it mostly gets by flipping cars around for little reason and for putting Elizabeth in slightly (!) unlikely situations then getting her out of them. The legal interest in the plot actually falls to pieces when you think about it, but the film is clever enough never to take it's central idea further than a few lines of dialogue before rendering the argument null and void.
Overall I was struck by just how ordinary and dull the whole film was. If I had seen this film as a low budget video thriller I still wouldn't have liked it but I may have accepted it for what it is. This film just exposed it's own weaknesses by virtue of pushing to be a product much grander than it's plot deserved.
- bob the moo
- 8 nov. 2003
Meilleurs choix
- How long is Double Jeopardy?Alimenté par Alexa
Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 70 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 116 741 558 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 23 162 542 $US
- 26 sept. 1999
- Montant brut mondial
- 177 841 558 $US
- Durée1 heure 45 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1