what is the name of the movie where a boy is a suspect in his mothers murder?
Question by Manuel: what is the name of the movie where a boy is a suspect in his mothers murder?
In the movie a boy is trick or did kill his mother in his sleep or he can’t remember but to police men make him say that he did
Best answer:
Answer by MystMoonstruck
A Death in Canaan (1978 TV movie)
starring Paul Clemens, Stefanie Powers, Tom Atkins, Jacqueline Brookes, Brian Dennehy, Conchata Ferrell, Charles Haid, Kenneth McMillan, Gavan O’Herlihy
Synopsis:
Paul Clemens plays the real-life Peter Reilly, who in September of 1973 was charged with the mutilation and murder of his mother. The confused 18-year-old signs a confession after being told that he’s flunked a lie detector test. Later renouncing the confession, Reilly demands a reopening of his case. The citizens of Peter’s home town of Canaan, Connecticut, who’d been willing to see the boy thrown in jail for life when the case first hit the papers, now rally around the youth, insisting that his constitutional rights have been violated. New evidence uncovered by a sympathetic detective enables Peter to press his case. Stefanie Powers plays Joan Barthel, the Canaan resident and freelance journalist who chronicled Peter’s bid for freedom.
For another “rush to judgment” movie, check out:
Moment of Truth: Murder or Memory? (1994 TV movie)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110597/
There is another real-life film, too, that I can’t recall at the moment, another situation where a teenage boy was accused of murder and basically hounded and tricked into a confession. // I remembered:
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002 TV movie)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0330452/
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