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| Based on a true story of a national scandal, a defense lawyer is turned on by shocking accusations that imprison an average American family. After six years and $16 million of tax-payers dollars, the trial ended with the dismissal of the charges without a single conviction. | Based on a true story of a national scandal, a defense lawyer is turned on by shocking accusations that imprison an average American family. After six years and $16 million of tax-payers dollars, the trial ended with the dismissal of the charges without a single conviction. | ||
| Some researchers have written that the “film’s focus appears to be slanted in favor of the accused perpetrators.” <ref>{{cite book | last = Noblitt | first =R. | coauthors =Perskin, P. |title = Cult and Ritual Abuse - It’s History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America | publisher = Praeger |date =2000 |location =Westport, CT. |pages =227 |url =http://www.questia.com/read/27225017 | isbn = 0-275-95281-9 |quote=The McMartin Case is also the subject of the cable movie, Indictment, produced by Home Box Office. Several children’s advocacy groups have expressed concerns that the film’s focus appears to be slanted in favor of the accused perpetrators. The newsletter for the organization, Believe the Children, contains an impassioned plea to its readers to relinquish their subscriptions to Home Box Office (HBO) in protest of the film’s airing. An article featured in the newsletter entitled “Sex Abuse, Lies and Videotape”(1995) describes the genesis of the program and voices its concerns that the true victims of the McMartin case, the children, might be damaged by the perspective of the film’s author... According to the article,...and his wife,..., became advocates of the operators and staff of the McMartin preschool during the course of their trial. Because of ...involvement in the case and their relationship to the accused perpetrators, the article expressed the concern that the film might reflect an unbalanced portrait of accused and accusers such that roles might be reversed in the eyes of the viewing public. This has, in fact, been proven to be a correct assumption. Reviews of the cable movie featured in magazines such as Time (Bellafante, 1995) and TV Guide (McDougal, 1995) on the film’s depiction of an overzealous prosecuting attorney, a mentally unbalanced parent of a child victim, and a punitive therapist all lend themselves to the perpetuation of the ideas that the true victims are the alleged perpetrators. Ironically, this film also casts the media in an unfavorable light implying that the media’s over-the-top reporting of the event led to a veritable witch hunt.”}}</ref> | |||
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1995 film| Indictment: The McMartin Trial | |
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| Directed by | Mick Jackson |
| Written by | Abby Mann Myra Mann |
| Produced by | Diana Pokorny |
| Starring | Lolita Davidovich Shirley Knight Mercedes Ruehl Henry Thomas Sada Thompson James Woods |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo García |
| Edited by | Richard A. Harris |
| Music by | Peter Rodgers Melnick |
| Distributed by | mediacs AG |
| Release date | 1995 |
| Running time | 135 min |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
Indictment: The McMartin Trial is a TV movie that originally aired on HBO on May 20, 1995 about the McMartin preschool trial.
Based on a true story of a national scandal, a defense lawyer is turned on by shocking accusations that imprison an average American family. After six years and $16 million of tax-payers dollars, the trial ended with the dismissal of the charges without a single conviction. Some researchers have written that the “film’s focus appears to be slanted in favor of the accused perpetrators.”
Film chapters
1. Main Title/Prologue
2. Indictment
3. Bail Hearing
4. The Case
5. The Children
6. Out of Bail
7. Preliminary Hearings
8. Unreliable Evidence
9. Doubts
10. Prosecutorial Misconduct
11. Prosecution Key Witness
12. Ray Buckey
13. The Verdict
14. Coda/End Credits
See also
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References
- Noblitt, R. (2000). Cult and Ritual Abuse - It’s History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America. Westport, CT.: Praeger. p. 227. ISBN 0-275-95281-9.
The McMartin Case is also the subject of the cable movie, Indictment, produced by Home Box Office. Several children's advocacy groups have expressed concerns that the film's focus appears to be slanted in favor of the accused perpetrators. The newsletter for the organization, Believe the Children, contains an impassioned plea to its readers to relinquish their subscriptions to Home Box Office (HBO) in protest of the film's airing. An article featured in the newsletter entitled "Sex Abuse, Lies and Videotape"(1995) describes the genesis of the program and voices its concerns that the true victims of the McMartin case, the children, might be damaged by the perspective of the film's author... According to the article,...and his wife,..., became advocates of the operators and staff of the McMartin preschool during the course of their trial. Because of ...involvement in the case and their relationship to the accused perpetrators, the article expressed the concern that the film might reflect an unbalanced portrait of accused and accusers such that roles might be reversed in the eyes of the viewing public. This has, in fact, been proven to be a correct assumption. Reviews of the cable movie featured in magazines such as Time (Bellafante, 1995) and TV Guide (McDougal, 1995) on the film's depiction of an overzealous prosecuting attorney, a mentally unbalanced parent of a child victim, and a punitive therapist all lend themselves to the perpetuation of the ideas that the true victims are the alleged perpetrators. Ironically, this film also casts the media in an unfavorable light implying that the media's over-the-top reporting of the event led to a veritable witch hunt."
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