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underrated movies are a common reoccurrence in show business today .
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1998's 'hope floats' was extremely underrated and was one of the best movies of the year .
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we always get films that make big money at the box-office but critics and audiences pan on them .
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this year 'double jeopardy' is one of those films .
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critics are calling it predictable and worthless , audiences are disappointed with it and think it was a disappointment .
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but as i viewed 'double jeopardy' i found that it was a great movie , it has a surprising sense of humor and a big dose of heart , along with heart-pounding suspense and twists and turns here and there it certainly is a really good movie .
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the always wonderful ashley judd plays libby parsons , a woman with a seemingly normal life : a great loving husband , a beautiful son and a great friend .
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her husband nick parsons has made a surprise for her and is going to buy her the sailboat she has always wanted .
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after a night of bliss libby wakes up in the middle of the night to find blood all over her and all over the sailboat , her husband is missing and there is a bloody knife on deck .
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of course being in shock she picks it up and a coast guard comes over and sees her .
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however she isn't immediately ceased until they find out his life insurance was worth two-million dollars and they start to wonder rather she killed him for the money .
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she pleads not-guilty but is found guilty and sent to prison for six years .
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while making a phone call to her best friend who adopted her son for her and she hears him say hi to his dad , which makes libby's heart stop right there .
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she realizes she must get out and prove that he isn't dead , one of her cell-mates tells her that as long as she has been convicted of a crime she cannot be convicted of it again .
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which means she can shoot him in the middle of mardi gras and they cannot do anything about it .
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after she gets out she goes to a halfway house run by parole officer tommy lee jones .
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he is a man who has had his share of bad things .
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while out for the day she breaks into a school and tries to track down her kid and husband , leading up to some jaw-dropping twists that are both predictable and not .
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whatever happens the film was excellent to me .
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i found the writing well-written as well as the acting was great .
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ashley judd is such a talented and beautiful actress that she is a hero in a sort in this movie .
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even if you know what is going to happen in the end , you don't know how .
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this is one of those movies that you really do know what is going to happen , except you don't know how they are going to make it happen .
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it could be one way or another , it could be this way or that way .
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the movie is highly stylized and extremely well-made .
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it gets most of it's power from the two leads : ashley judd and tommy lee jones both give excellent performances .
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the characters are well-realized and believable and we feel libby's pain when she cannot see her child for 6 years .
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even though a lot of critics didn't like the film , i loved it .
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the director took his time making the movie , and put a lot of shadowing in the movie .
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i found it not to be boring at all and it's only flaw comes from some predictability .
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it moved at a fast pace , has suspense , humor , heart and great acting .
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it earns it's right to be a great movie and to me that's what it was .
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