Is the Ashley Judd thriller 'Double Jeopardy' the ultimate guilty pleasure?

Yes Rose, this completely unknown movie is "the ultimate guilty pleasure". Thread closed.

The Rose troll is so tired and unfunny.

And this movie was a big box office hit in 1999 and is still played regularly on TV.

What's the problem? I answered your question. Yes it is the ultimate guilty pleasure! I certainly can't think of any movie that even comes close.

Op, I agree with you completely. I don’t know how many times I have watched this, but wherever it is on, I am compelled to watch it. And I enjoy it every time.

I love seeing the city of New Orleans in that movie. That’s the only reason I watch it.

Is that the one where she’s buried alive? Aiyeeeee no! My every nightmare if so. I fled the cinema at that scene.

Ignore if I’m confusing my Ashley Judd flicks.

She bares her boobs!

Ashley got her tits and muff out for her sex scene with Bruce Greenwood. As would we all.

Tommy lee jones was a hot daddy in this

People who say g... pl..... are nearly automatically dead to me. And I don't know what's supposed to be a g p about it; and I don't know what such d... people then see as acceptable viewing; today's stuff is mostly dreck. That movie was from a time when there were still good movies; and dl has got real problems acknowledging good work, it's tiring.

I love Ashley Judd. This movie, Kiss the Girls, and Eye of the Beholder are three guilty pleasures. Throw in Where the Heart Is, too.

i love that movie too

she made soome damn good thrillers. this is one of em.

SUSPENSEFUL

[Quote] It's on AMC now and every time it's on television, I have to watch it.

I do too. It's been on the tv alot lately.

[Quote] Throw in Where the Heart Is, too.

I love that movie, Stockard Channing is the highlight as a horny Christian.

Ashley Judd had a solid run as a Woman In Peril heroine. It’s rare to have a good juicy thriller on general release these days, it’s all kids movies, Oscar bait and Marvel.

I just discovered that the cute boy who helps Ashley Judd in the library is the hot diver who Muriel marries in Muriel's Wedding. How did I never know this before?!

In Double Jeopardy:

R10, the tiresome ones are the people who insist everything was better "in my day"

it's one of those movies one could watch over and over and never get tired of... the scenery in washington and colorado is breathtaking and i love the sweeping melancholy beautiful theme music at the end of the movie during the credits...

in my mind, i always wonder if her character now free and innocent spent time with her 2 prison friends, played by the great roma maffia and the other great "character" actress davenia mcfadden... they befriended her and helped her all that time after all and helped her get her parole too!...a bit of annabeth gish as well....

Meh. Stars: 3/5. Certainly not a guilty pleasure by any means. You’re really asking the wrong crowd. The guilty pleasure of DL’rs is blowing str8 dudes who will never reciprocate or stick again once business is done. Maybe we can try to watch this in between blowjobs. Maybe. But probably not.

I have always loved Ashley Judd. Why has she not gotten better roles and more awards? Maybe Netflix can produce her a hit show. Remember that time Wynonna sat on her when the three of them did a Barbara Walters special together?

I thought that her character would make contact again with her friends from prison r18, especially the lawyer friend who helped her and explained to her the concept of Double Jeopardy.

Don't forget High Crimes and Twisted in the "Bad/fun Ashley Judd Thriller" genre.

Song of the South is a guilty pleasure (politically incorrect). Borat (offensive, low brow, and hugely popular). American Pie (puerile). Twilight (lowbrow, mass culture hit, puerile, ridiculous).

My own guilty pleasures include Medea movies, and ADAM SANDLER.

By the way, Double Jeopardy has plot holes deeper than the Mariana Trench. For one, she is the kid's mother (or birth mother, if the friend adopted since) and she has / had a lawyer, and it would be easy as pie for the lawyer to track the kid and investigate the non-dead dad.

Jodie met a turkey baster and gave Ashley's unstoppable cheeks a chance.

I have always loved this movie. I remember seeing it as a kid with my parents--I think they rented it from the video store. It's a well-crafted, totally unbelievable thriller with that late '90s edge. As someone mentioned above, "Kiss the Girls" (also starring Judd) has a similar flavor—overwrought and totally silly, but endlessly watchable.

I see it's on Prime. Maybe I'll watch it in the morning in bed for old times' sake.

R6, this is indeed the one where she's buried alive...with the corpse of a dead woman. I refuse to watching outright horror movies, so when that scene happened (she somehow lit a candle or a lighter in the coffin), my skin crawled, I shrieked, and climbed up on the back of the sofa nearly crying. My straight female friend thought I was nuts...this was back in the day when we rented it from Blockbuster. My favourite line of the film is when she tells a stranger, "My, that's a remarkable wrap." And then I think she pilfers said wrap.

Bruce Greenwood is hot.

I remember reading that she had a reputation such that leading men (one was George Clooney) wouldn't work with her, and her career faltered. Now I wonder if it was just Harvey Weinstein spreading lies because she wouldn't fuck him.

r30, yep!

I remember one of the earliest celeb gossip sites said Ashley used to love to take her grandmother to movies and explain loudly what was happening. It was such a random rumor but I still laugh thinking about it actually happening.

Was the woman meant to be a lesbian? Jodie was supposed to play this part.

I have only seen this movie once, and I enjoyed it, as ridiculous as it is. The Washington State scenes were filmed in British Columbia, as usual. But it doesn't really matter, because the scenery is identical.

r25, not to mention the very premise is based on a completely inaccurate understanding of what 'double jeopardy' is.

R31 it sounds like Harvey's dirty work.

I agree Bruce Greenwood is hot. I love him in Wild Orchid, which is even more of a guilty pleasure. The scene where he fucks Carrie Otis is the hottest in the movie. Sorry, Mickey!

love that film.

what are other suspenseful thrillers she was in?

Yes, I’ve seen Double Jeopardy a lot, also Runaway Jury with John Cusack and Rachel Weisz.

r40 speaking of Runaway Jury, The Firm is probably my favourite Tom Cruise movie. Juicy, expertly directed by Sydney Pollack and great fucking actors all over the supporting cast.

Did she really show her minge? I remember watching it with my mum around 2000 and only remember her naked titties.

I've never seen this movie, but I love Ashley Judd in a little-known movie called Ruby in Paradise. If you get a chance, watch it. Here's the YouTube link.

Does Ashley even act anymore?

I know she's had a lot of plastic surgery the past few years which she explains as "reaction to medication". (Bitch, who are you kidding?) But at her height, she was a watchable movie star. I think this was probably the best example of that, along with Kiss the Girls.

She was great in Ruby in Paradise

The late 90's was when I was in my early 20's and saw ALOT of films in the theatre with a dear friend of mine at the time.

I loved this film. And when the coffin scene hit, the entire audience GASPED. It was really well done.

A great film in terms of entertainment value-

Loved it!

No. It’s legally flawed.

It's on Netflix now too.

It really is a masterpiece of the kind of middlebrow thrillers Hollywood used to pump out regularly. Tommy Lee Jones just phones it in, but this is Judd at her feisty peak. The mise en scene is wonderful, as is the score and cinematography. The locales are used well. Every small role is well cast. The women's prison and the library scene are great. Of course, there's plenty of cringe. Judd breaking into that school like she's James Bond. Jones berating that woman for going down to the docks in green hot pants to hook rather than her job at McDonalds is the most hilarious thing in the movie.

Besides the ridiculous interpretation of Double Jeopardy the other plot hole is how the hell does Judd get released from prison after only six years after being found guilty of viciously stabbing her husband to death and then throwing his body overboard to profit from his life insurance policy? Talk about White Privilege!

Never fear, R49. With BLM in full swing, hopefully they'll release Double Family Feud in 2021.

[Quote] Jones berating that woman for going down to the docks in green hot pants to hook rather than her job at McDonalds is the most hilarious thing in the movie.

That scene always makes me cringe.

I liked Ashley Judd, too bad, Peter Jackson believed Weinstein’s lies about her and didn’t cast her in Lord of the Rings.

Ashley is lovely and articulate. I love Double Jeopardy and Time to Fucking Kill where she plays the long suffering WIFE. She's blonde and lovely, even though that PIG face Sandra Bullock gets more screen time. A Time To Kill and The Firm are the best guilty pleasure films of all time, and Double Jeopardy, Kiss the Girls and that one where Jodie Foster loses her kid on the Airplane are close seconds. The Firm is almost too good to be called a guilty pleasure. Ashley is also incredible in the very fucked up BUG. That should have been her Oscar nom. I've been on that meth trip, except I don't think that's what's happening in that film. Any fans of Bug??? Amazing and intense.

Here Wynonna and Mama Judd and the lovely and most articulate Ashley all cry. The Judds cry a lot. You won't regret watching this. Wy sounds gorgeous and Ashley is lovely.

r42 she shows EVERYTHING in this Marilyn Movie. Ashley plays Norma Jean and after the Marilyn transformation she's played by Mira Sorvino.

Ashley tries too hard to be articulate that it trickles into her roles. Playing everything she overly annunciates every word and makes her inflections sound more like a speaker than an actor. That's why she's never come across as a real character to me in any movie. And in Time To Kill she was horrendous. Sweating and sexy on the southern porch steps pronouncing Jake like it was an elegant and important word. She's not a good actress. And she's an annoying wannabe intellectual from Kentucky which in itself is ludicrous.

But she was lovely and articulate and make some great guilty pleasure films R55. That is the point.

[Quote] A Time To Kill and The Firm are the best guilty pleasure films of all time, and Double Jeopardy, Kiss the Girls and that one where Jodie Foster loses her kid on the Airplane are close seconds.

Flightplan is one of those movies I can never finish. I don't what it is, but I always get bored halfway through.

She was good in “Ruby In Paradise” and that’s it. She grates on my nerves.

She's truly great in Bug. That Friedkin film is so unappreciated.

Hold the horses...what part of the movie does Tommy Lee chide the McDonald's worker for hooking in the green pants? Is is during one of the chase scenes? If it's on Prime, I'll rewatch it just for that.

She should play the Betty Buckle role in the reboot of Eight us Enough.

She had gorgeous boobs.

R56 People are allowed to contest the point of the thread. Otherwise such threads would drawn in the treacly miasma of purple prose stanning.

R60.. that scene you mention of is right after judd's character is in that halfway house that tommy lee jones character runs..... after she's out of prison and before she gets away from jones and goes looking for her son and her non dead sociopath evil husband (i.e. in colorado and then new orleans)..

Twisted featured Titus Welliver, a guy who never had a body but was always sexy as fuck!

R64, thanks! Will watch it tonight and look for it.

I loved Ashley Judd in Heat. Among a very, very, very strong cast she was very strong. The scene where she saw Val Kilmer on the street from a balcony and warned him with a wave of her hand that the police were there and wanted her to ID him was a fine scene in a movie full of them.

And she fucked Robert De Niro on set, during probably the last time he was sexy.

She was the best part of Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. I enjoyed her in Someone Like You as well. FUCK WEINSTEIN!

I watch this movie once a year.

I love her movies. She did a slew of them back in the day similar to Double Jeopardy.

Revenge hot and cold--and I love it. Doesn't everyone wish they could serve their ex-s like Ashley does here?

When she charges that fabulous cocktail dress to the hotel room of some rich guest and snaps at the bitchy shop assistant that she's not a 4 but a 2, I cheered.

stealth "Alex Trebeck is dead to me" thread.

I always thought Bruce Greenwood was hot. I loved his nude scene in Wild Orchid. Way hotter in that film than Mickey Rourke, whose plastic surgery before filming made him look like Porky Pig.