 Double Jeopardy 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish, Roma Maffia, Davenia McFadden, Jay Brazeau, Gillian Barber, Daniel Lapaine, Spencer Treat Clark
Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is in prison wrongfully convicted of murder. The "victim" is her husband, Nick (Bruce Greenwood), who turns up alive and well while raising their son and living with Libby's friend, Angela (Annabeth Gish). When Libby uncovers the ploy, she plots her revenge–based on her belief that she can only be tried once for Nick's murder.
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Honeydripper 2007  PG-13, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Gary Clark Jr., Mabel John, Stacy Keach, Nagee Clay, Absalom Adams, Arthur Lee Williams, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Davenia McFadden, Daryl Edwards, Sean Patrick Thomas
This story takes place in Harmony, Alabama, during 1950 and revolves around the efforts of Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis (Danny Glover) to avoid bankruptcy. Pine Top's bar and blues club, the Honeydipper Lounge, is failing, and he hires popular "Guitar Sam" to perform a one-night-only show as a way to draw in customers who, in turn, will bring in enough money to save the club. But, "Guitar Sam" fails to appear, and now Pine Top has to find someone to impersonate "Guitar Sam" in order to save the club. The answer to his dilemma is itinerant guitarist Sonny Blake (Gary Clark Jr.) who will impersonate "Guitar Sam." But, will the ruse work, and will Pine Top be able to save his club?
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Stranger Inside 2001 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cheryl Dunye
Cast: Yolonda Ross, Davenia McFadden, LaTonya "T" Hagans, Mary Mara, Rain Phoenix, Marc Vann, Medusa, Ella Joyce, Conchata Ferrell, Emily Kuroda
Treasure (Yolonda Ross), who grew up motherless, has been in trouble with the law most of her life. She finds out that her birth mother, a hardened criminal who was thought to be dead, is a lifer in the state prison. Treasure, about to turn 21, purposely gets caught in a crime in order to go to the prison. She finds her mother, but it's not the reunion she hoped for. Made for HBO.
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| 1. Double Jeopardy (1999)
2. Honeydripper (2007)
3. Stranger Inside (2001)
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