On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, a small town District Attorney receives word that the governor has exonerated a death row inmate whom the DA prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of the ex-inmate's release and through the prism of the media frenzy, what unfolds is a public vetting of the DA's record. When hard evidence of actual impropriety finds its way into his possession, the exonerated man seeks out the DA for answers.
Acting
Fitzgerald's DA crumbles in real-time; Hornsby's simmering dignity
Writing
Tight 81-minute moral pressure cooker, no fat
Director
Paul Fitzgerald
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2004, the film eerily prefigures the Innocence Project era's political reckonings.
Fitzgerald wrote, directed, and starred—allegedly after no actor would touch the DA's complexity.
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