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The movie was shot in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, starring Richard Crenna, John Shea and Dylan Baker. The film was adapted from the 1983 true crime book Deadly Force: The True Story of How a Badge Can Become a License to Kill (alternately subtitled A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth ) by Lawrence O'Donnell .
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 94% based on reviews from 16 critics, with an average rating of 7.38/10. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Time Out ranked it with four stars out of five, with the summary "This death row documentary sets up an intriguing mystery that'll keep you gripped until the final moments". [ 8 ]
Crown Heights is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Matt Ruskin. Adapted from a This American Life podcast, the film tells the true story of Colin Warner who was wrongfully convicted of murder, and how his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving Colin's innocence.
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Time Simply Passes is a 2015 US documentary film chronicling the life and wrongful conviction of James Joseph Richardson.It details the circumstances leading to his 1967 arrest for the poisoning deaths of his seven children in Arcadia, Florida, his twenty-one years spent in prison, his miraculous release in 1989 upon the discovery of hidden evidence, and the twenty-five years he spent ...
False Arrest is a 1991 American television film based on the real-life murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps and the true story of Joyce Lukezic, who was wrongfully convicted of being one of the masterminds behind the murders. [1]
[11] Another review aggregator Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, indicating "generally positive reviews". [ 12 ] Martha Coakley , Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , who was portrayed in the film, commented after seeing a pre-screening on October 12, 2010, that it was a compelling film ...
The Innocence Files is a 2020 American true crime documentary miniseries about wrongful convictions, and how they can affect the lives of the involved. [1] [2] The series is based upon the work of the Innocence Project, which is committed to exonerating individuals who it believes to have been wrongfully convicted.