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LIST PRICE
$19.98
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Format: VHS
Jan 1991
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
Closed Captioned
92 min.
Color
UPC: 026359056734 |
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Movie Description
A woman is scarred by a purse snatcher with a knife and picks someone out of the police files even though she is not sure it was him. If she's right, it's justice. If she's wrong, it's revenge.
Synopsis
This powerful drama argues that America's courts have become too overburdened with cases to deliver justice anymore.
After hooker Denise Moore gets robbed and stabbed in a Brooklyn tenement while buying crack, she picks ex-con Jesse Williams out of a lineup at the police station. As a result, Jesse is charged with assault and robbery.
A tough, female assistant district attorney takes charge of the case -- and she cares a lot more about winning than exposing the truth. Defending Jesse, who insists he's innocent, is a lawyer who would rather make a plea bargain than bring the case to trial.
But Jesse doesn't want to go back to jail; he has a mother and son who need him, and he desperately wants to lead an honest life. He winds up with a painful choice: should he accept a plea bargain that will put him behind bars for three to six years, or risk a trial -- and a guilty verdict that could put him behind bars for twelve years?
Film Notes
Originally cablecast on HBO on September 8, 1990.
Filmed in Pittsburgh.
The end credits of the film say that, in 1989, there were over 300,000 criminal cases in New York. Of that number, 58 percent of the defendants plea bargained, while only two percent ended up going to trial.
Additional cast: Saundra McClain; Stephen Pearlman; William Cameron; Chuck Copper; Bill Dalzell 3d; Charles G. Sanders; Alex Coleman; Larry John Meyers; Don Brockett; Rick Applegate; Joe Marmo; Ro'ee Levi; Benjamin J. Cain Jr.; Ramier Sellers; Jacquay L. McCall; Gregory Gibson Kenney; Bruce Kirkpatrick; Yancey Arias; Marc Field; Patricia Hicok; Lonzo Green; Ellsworth Gearinger; Etta Cox; Peter Wolk; Zachary Mott; Frank Seals; and Bufort L. McClerkins Jr.
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