Double Jeopardy

(Paramount)

This feeble Fugitive retread has Ashley Judd as naive, spoiled housewife and mother Libby Parsons, whose husband (Bruce Greenwood) vanishes at sea. Convicted on circumstantial evidence, Libby does her time and comes out primed for revenge. Enter Tommy Lee Jones as parole officer Travis Lehman, who's doggedly determined to bring Libby to justice -- or vice versa. Preposterous and dull, Jeopardy seems to have been taken up by director Bruce Beresford as an opportunity for shooting arty local color in New Orleans. The title, of course, refers to the illegality of trying someone twice for the same crime. Now that he's in his third run-through of the same material, that statute of limitations has expired for Tommy Lee.