Double Jeopardy (1999)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

Film Arts Guild

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

CinemaSource

Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 24, 1999

Running Time: 105 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: Germany

starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau, Bruce Greenwood, John MacLaren, Edward Evanko, Annabeth Gish, Bruce Campbell, Brennan Elliott

director: Bruce Beresford, Glenn Randall

A woman is set up to take the fall for her husband's murder. After serving prison time, she is released to discover that her husband's death was faked and her son is missing and had been put up for adoption. With the help of her parole officer, she goes on the search for her son and for her husband, but with the idea to kill the latter, knowing that to try her again for murder would constitute double jeopardy.

Everything is what it seems in Paramount's latest action-adventure thriller. If you've seen the trailer, then you already know the formula. It's one part Ashley Judd, able-bodied heroine from "Kiss the Girls"; one part Tommy Lee Jones, erstwhile u.s. marshal from "The Fugitive"; and a whole lot of not-so-nifty storyline that follows him chasing her chasing a despicable louse who deserves what's coming to him.

The good news in this uninspiring enterprise is that director Bruce Beresford moves…