Underplayed Gems

Devil's Knot (2013)

Devil's Knot poster
Directed by
Atom Egoyan
Genre
drama film, crime film, biographical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 722 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A film about the real-life case of three children murdered in Arkansas and the three teenagers wrongly convicted of the crime. It follows a private investigator who looks into the case and a mother of one of the accused during the trial.

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What happens

Devil's Knot is a 2013 American biographical crime drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book of the same name. The film is about the true story of three murdered children and three teenagers, known as the West Memphis Three, who were convicted of killing the three children during the Satanic panic. The teenagers were subsequently sentenced to death (Echols) and life imprisonment (Baldwin and Misskelley), before all were released after eighteen years. The film was produced by Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, Clark Peterson, Christopher Woodrow, and Paul Harris Boardman. The film stars Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Dane DeHaan, Mireille Enos, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Stephen Moyer, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Ryan, and Martin Henderson. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8. It had a limited release in Canadian theaters on January 24, 2014, and it was released in U.S. theaters and video on demand services on May 9, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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