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NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013)

NCR: Not Criminally Responsible poster
Directed by
John Kastner
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
18A
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines how one man's mental illness led him to attack a stranger and then be found not criminally responsible. It follows both the attacker's life in a psychiatric hospital and his victim's struggle with trauma.

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What happens

NCR: Not Criminally Responsible is a 2013 Canadian documentary film by John Kastner, exploring the effects of the mental disorder defence in Canada, by following the stories of Sean Clifton, who stabbed and badly injured a woman named Julie Bouvier in a shopping mall while he was in a delusional state, and his traumatized victim. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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