ANYONE IN IT WE KNOW?

Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover

WHAT’S IT ABOUT THEN?

Six true stories about people who were wrongly convicted of heinous crimes but were eventually cleared.

SO IS IT ANY GOOD?

If the list of star names above make you think it's going to be a gripping story-film then you'll be disappointed.  

Because it is basically a documentary - the whole film is people sitting talking to the camera in a talking heads documentary way (with only the occasional very basically shot flashback).  The only difference to it being a "proper" documentary is that actors are playing the roles of the real people talking about their experiences.  The six stories are not told in an episodically sequential form - instead they are intermingled so they all take their turn of progressing their narrative on to roughly the same stage before each then continues on a bit with the next development of their case, and so on up to their eventual release.  At the end the actors are replaced by the real people who say what they've been doing since.  

If the stories had been played out in story form then it might have been interesting, but the way it's presented makes it all a bit dull unfortunately - even real documentaries aren't made this dryly this anymore.  

It was a made-for-TV film for an American satellite channel called "Court TV" which (I assume) specialises in legal related programming.  Whether this was an "experiment" or if they make all their original-programming like this I couldn't say but I think you would have to be very interested in the subject of miscarriages of justice or in one of the individual cases to really appreciate this.

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

Unpreviewed.

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