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Crime, Drama
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate fact-based investigative dramas built around dogged reporting, procedural detail, and principled challenges to official certainty.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, bittersweet
- Payoff
- revelation, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- justice, wrongful conviction, investigative journalism, institutional corruption, truth
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, urban newspaper offices, courts, and state institutions
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