This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
Acting
William Baldwin smirking his way through sociopathy
Writing
Linda Fairstein's prosecution dismantles rape culture in real-time
Director
John Herzfeld
Danny Aiello
Mike Sheehan
William Baldwin
Robert Chambers
Joanna Kerns
Linda Fairstein
Lara Flynn Boyle
Jennifer Levin
Dorothy Fielding
Phyllis Chambers
James Handy
Joe Brady Quinn
William Devane
Jack Litman
Allan Arbus
Arnold Domenitz
Christine Healy
Ellen Levin
Herb Mitchell
Robert Chambers Sr.
J.C. Quinn
Jack Dorrian
Alan Blumenfeld
Thalmus Rasulala
Judge Bell
Alan Rosenberg
Dan Levin
David Spielberg
Steven Levin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired just three years after the real 1986 Central Park killing, when 'preppie' became shorthand for entitled WASP violence. The actual Robert Chambers served 15 years, then returned to prison for drug dealing.
Director John Herzfeld later made '15 Minutes' — he's obsessed with media-fueled crime. Here he casts Baldwin to look eerily like the real Chambers, weaponizing his pretty-boy vulnerability.
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