“Double Jeopardy” quotes

(1999)
Movie Double Jeopardy
Bruce Beresford directed this movie in 1999
Title Double Jeopardy
Year 1999
Director Bruce Beresford
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Plot – Libby has a rich and attractive husband, a beloved son and a beautiful house, but the man disappears during a romantic weekend and Libby is accused of his murder. In prison she prays her best friend to adopt her son. She accepts but then she disappears as well with the child. After six years, Libby gains probation and manages to escape.
All actors – Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau, Bruce Greenwood, John Maclaren, Ed Evanko, Annabeth Gish, Bruce Campbell, Brennan Elliott, Angela Schneider, Michael Gaston
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  • “I always said there was good money in tomatoes.”

    Anna Hagan - Libby's Mother
    [Tag:money]
  • “- Mangold: Lehman, the thing is, every now and again, we all want to believe in something, but we just keep forgetting that 99.9 percent of the time, life just flat don't work out.
    - Travis: I hadn't thought of that, Mangold. Thanks. I feel a lot better now.”

    Dave Hager - Mangold
    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
  • “- Nick: Aren't you gonna do something?
    - Travis: What are you talkin' to me for? She's the one with the gun.”

    Bruce Greenwood - Nick
    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
  • “- Libby: I don't know if I've ever been so scared in my whole life. I think a big part of me never thought I'd really find him. What if he doesn't recognize me? I mean, maybe after all this time...
    - Travis: Dammit, woman! Because of you, I have lost a perfectly good used car, and a not-so-good job. If you don't go to this kid right now, I'm...” (continue)
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    Ashley Judd - Libby
    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
    [Tag:fear, son, stupidity]
  • “- Mangold: Mr. Lehman, I'd love to be able to help you, sir.
    - Travis: No, I don't want you guys to go to any trouble. I can handle matters. I just came down as a professionalcourtesy, since she's in New Orleans, and came here to kill one of your prominent citizens.
    - Mangold: And just how is she planning on doing that?
    - Travis: I don't know....” (continue)
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    Dave Hager - Mangold
    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
  • - Libby: I feel like I've grown these past six years.
    - Margaret: "Grown"? Honey, they don't want to hear that you've turned into some kind of tree, okay? So you just repeat after me, "If I could tradeplaces with my husband, I would".
    - Libby: Ugh. "If I could tradeplaces with my husband, I would".
    - Evelyn: That's good. Now, throw in a lot of... (continue)
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    Ashley Judd - Libby
    Roma Maffia - Margaret
    Davenia McFadden - Evelyn
  • “- Margaret: Put some elbow grease behind that stirring. Nobody wants to eat any burnt tapioca.
    - Libby: Does it smell like it's burning?
    - Margaret: Oh, I swear you got shit for brains, girl.”

    Roma Maffia - Margaret
    Ashley Judd - Libby
  • - Travis: Listen to me, Karl. I think maybe this Parsons woman has been telling the truth.
    - Karl Carruthers: You're not a law professor anymore, Travis. You're barely even a parole officer. So stop playing "Mission Impossible".

    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
    Ben Bode - Karl Carruthers
  • “- Evelyn: Hey, take it easy. We're your new best friends.
    - Margaret: Heard you did your husband. He probably deserved it.
    - Evelyn: Mine did.”

    Davenia McFadden - Evelyn
    Roma Maffia - Margaret
    [Tag:husband, murder]
  • Pay attention, because this is the best goddamn advice you're ever gonna get. Ever hear of something called double jeopardy? Fifth Amendment to the constitution? Huh? No? Well, double jeopardy provides that "no person may be tried for the same crime twice". You got that? Keep stirrin'. The state says you already killed your husband. They can't... (continue)(continue reading)
    Roma Maffia - Margaret
    [Tag:advice, crime, law]
  • “- Nick: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
    - Libby: 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: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.”

    Bruce Greenwood - Nick
    Ashley Judd - Libby
    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
  • “- Prosecutor: Mrs. Parsons, you've heard the testimony be presented to this court, and your explanation is that somebody must have come aboard the Morning Star.
    - Libby: That's right.
    - Prosecutor: Well, let's consider all the possibilities. Maybe a band of pirates. Or aliens! Did aliens murder your husband? No. Aliens weren't beneficiaries in...” (continue)
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    Betsy Brantley - Prosecutor
    Ashley Judd - Libby
  • “- Libby: Do you think I killed him?
    - Bobby: That's the first rule of being a lawyer. What we think doesn't matter.”

    Ashley Judd - Libby
    Jay Brazeau - Bobby
  • “You cannot know what it is like to sit in prison for six years and think of nothing else in the world but your son.”

    Ashley Judd - Libby
    [Tag:prison, son]
  • “- Travis: You think I'm a mean son of a bitch?
    - Libby: I think you could have given her a second chance.
    - Travis: There are no second chances in this house, baby. This is the last chance house! You try to understand that.”

    Tommy Lee Jones - Travis
    Ashley Judd - Libby
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