Dream/Killer (2015)

Directed by

Andrew Jenks

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a father's fight to prove his son's innocence after a wrongful murder conviction. It centers on how a witness's dream led to the son's imprisonment and the long legal battle to overturn it.

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What happens

Dream/Killer, stylized onscreen as dream/killer, is a 2015 documentary film about the wrongful conviction of Ryan Ferguson based on the testimony of a classmate who said that he’d dreamt that Ferguson was the killer. The film details the case and Bill Ferguson's journey to free his son. It debuted at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. It aired in August 2016 as a two-hour special on the Investigation Discovery network. The documentary was later released on Netflix in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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