
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.... (Full plot summary below)
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Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.
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| User ReviewKady KA five star movie portraying the lack of integrity of our legal system, the self glorifying police, Judges and Lawyers who would rather cover the truth to lift themselves up. Willing to except the lie at the expense of another. |
| User ReviewElizabeth CWow. 22 years in prison for something you didn't do is crazy. And they didn't even give him an apology or anything. |
| User ReviewKelly WIf you like legal dramas based on true stories (and I do!) this is a film for you! Julia Ormond faces a 22 year struggle to prove a man's innocence. |
| User ReviewRochelle MHow to make a story that spans 22 years interesting: you can't. So you hire Julia Ormond and hope for the best. I really wanted to see the real perpetrator caught, but I guess that doesn't always happen in real life. |
| User ReviewCrusader .Good story, excellent acting, good cast, but just wasn't nearly as compelling or moving as other wrongful conviction films I've seen. |
| User ReviewRobin PErin Brokovich as it might have been made for the Lifetime network -- i.e. stripped of much that would keep a person's interest very long. Ormond's not bad as the noble paralegal, and the gross inequities of the case deserved big-screen treatment. But...director McLoughlin hasn't found ways to give his movie character, and the result is desperately bland. |
| User ReviewCarmen CVery hard story because it´s a real one. It makes you wonder why the "justice" symbol is blindfolded, because sometimes it doesn´t want to see... |