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rewatching for its 25th

posted 2 months ago by ADBruno1985 (3487)
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Minor plot hole I never really considered before. The 911 call played at the trial. We don't hear how it ends, which would be significant. Do they not ask him who stabbed him? How does he hang up? Something like that they might want to keep him on the line until they get there. Or did he make noises to sound like he'd been stabbed again and was being pushed over?

And parole after 6 years seems quick.

Another, it just seems unlikely that Nick would be able to do so many identity changes. He travels in elite circles. These people travel to all the places he lives, and have connections. His friends from San Francisco would expect to see him when they visit New Orleans. Or they'd happen to bump into him at a party of mutual acquaintances. At the very least there'd be business associates.

[–] TMC-4 (20150) 2 months ago

25 years ago, Double Jeopardy held a going-out-of-business sale for ’90s thrillers

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/ashley-judd/double-jeopardy-at-25

In September 1999, a surprise hit played throughout the fall to become one of the year’s most popular movies – a film that also exposed the fissures and tensions beneath a modern marriage, caused in part by materialism and pressure to succeed, and inevitably ending in violence. I’m speaking, naturally, of Double Jeopardy, the movie where Ashley Judd’s husband fakes his death and frames her for his murder – freeing her up to eventually kill him, because she can’t be convicted for the same crime twice. The movie has no direct source material, but I do picture screenwriters David Weisberg and Douglas Cook pointing to their heads like Roll Safe when they came up with the idea.

And yes, American Beauty did ultimately wind up making a little more money in the long run, and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with its own portrait of a fractured marriage. But that movie’s strange position in the 1999 pantheon – a galvanizing and then-contemporary consensus choice for the best movie of the year that has soured quicker and more noticeably than other zeitgeisty offerings – has probably been talked to death. Double Jeopardy has been content to play on TNT for much of the 2000s. It made almost exactly the same amount of money as Notting Hill, a date-night attraction for the chillier fall season.