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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MONTEREY HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0012233140521
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Monterey Video
Manufacturer: Monterey Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Monterey Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 21237
Studio: Monterey Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 27, 2005
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Description:
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Susan Sarandon, David Brown Jr.
Written By: Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed By: Bob Balaban
Sixteen years. Imagine everything you could do with sixteen years.
Imagine everything you did the last sixteen years.
Now take it all away.
Sunny Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Sixteen years was just the beginning of what was taken from Sunny Jacobs.
Twenty-nine Academy Award nominations, eighty-seven Golden Globe nominations, one hundred and twelve EMMY nominations: such is the incredible array of actors who have lent their considerable talents and passion to The Exonerated. As a play, awarded the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, it was acclaimed in major cities across America.
Now as a film, the undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelop you in their search for the lost small pieces of dignity and the lives so unceremoniously interrupted.
True stories in their own words. Stories you will never forget.
Seen on Court TV
DVD Features:
Actor's soundbites
From the writers
Bios & Background
Amazing Grace performed by Lyle Lovett
Amazon.com:
A stellar cast is the chief appeal of The Exonerated, director Bob Balaban's film adaptation of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's true-life stage play. Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, and Delroy Lindo portray five of the six people (the sixth is played by newcomer David Brown, Jr.) who were convicted of crimes they didn't commit and spent years on various death rows before their cases were re-examined and new evidence led to their being set free. Performing a script pieced together from actual court transcripts, depositions, letters, and interviews, each of the six, some of them accompanied by a spouse, recounts his or her story from beginning (crime, arrest, and conviction) to end (i.e., exculpation and readjustment to the outside world, where they must 'practice to be human again'). Some of the material is pretty shocking, reflecting outrageously inept and/or prejudicial work on the part of law enforcement, legal representatives, and/or court officials; for instance, the lawyer for Kerry Max Cook (Quinn), who was locked up for over 20 years on a patently bogus rape-murder conviction, was a former district attorney who had twice prosecuted him in the past. Other characters are introduced via occasional re-enactments of police interrogations, trial testimony, and such, but for the most part it's the six principals who dominate the screen. That's a mixed blessing; although placing the actors against black, blank backdrops and bathing them in holy light is certainly dramatic, the result is somewhat static and, not surprisingly, very theatrical (The Exonerated had over 600 off-Broadway performances, in addition to national tours). Nevertheless, its impact is considerable--especially when the real 'exonerees' appear onscreen at the end. Extra features include bios and interviews with the writers and actors. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - King of BOORING !!!
This HAS to be one of the BORINGEST if not The Most Boring movie i've EVER seen !!!Guess i could tag it A Waste Of Time ?
Rating:  - Good and True
True. No one innocent should be killed. This shows that there are people that are innocent that are executed. What about before there there was DNA testing? At least let ther be a moratorium to study the biasness of who is on death row.
Rating: - excellent!
Excellent performances, wonderful production, too. stayed pretty true to the play and how that is performed. definitely recommended!
Rating:  - Important
Compelling writing. The true stories of six people released from death row. Compelling. No subtitles so I had to concentrate, and I did. Compelling. I want you to note that I used this word three times, sincerely, because now I'm going to bash it.
An actor or actress who is quite talented recites against a black background and shifting camera angles, so we know it's an important movie. It even says so on the cover. In contrast, the supporting actors are extras from the Hollywood Starbucks, and the sound effects are quite unnecessary. Is this how we sell relevance to Merkin viewers? And we can't even tell the stories 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5, and 6 but must jump back and forth and up and down and round and round because Merkins have short attention spans.
Honestly, I would've preferred to read the transcripts. But since I didn't, I'm glad I saw the DVD. Think of it as an audiobook, maybe. It's only 90 minutes. I'm glad I saw it, even though my very own VIGILANTE JUSTICE explains why I strongly support the death penalty.
And I remain mystified by how China chooses which DVDs to sell. Yep, we brought a pile of unwatched DVDs with us. We might never have to buy one in Thailand.
Rating: - A Staggering Film That Should Be Required Viewing
The truth is tough, the truth must be faced, and the truth is what THE EXONERATED is all about. A project started by writers Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen in 2000 when, in response to a lecture on capital punishment, the couple was moved by the telephone voice of one of the many innocent people on death row who had been falsely convicted of murders they did not in truth commit. This lead to a commitment on the part of Blank and Jensen to interview six such imprisoned people who had spent years of their lives on Death Row only to be eventually exonerated and released. The result of this research was a play that not only was on Broadway but also traveled the country. Now director Bob Balaban has transformed this play into one of the most seeringly powerful dramas about our penal system that has ever been produced.
Each of the six condemned people on death row is portrayed by a gifted actor and the script is taken 100% from interviews and testimony and court records of these exonerated victims. They each tell their story of the incident that resulted in their wrongful arrest and conviction, their experience while confined to Death Row, their thoughts of living in threat of execution, and their manner of dealing with the world once released. These different people are portrayed by Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Aidan Quinn, and David Brown, Jr. Adding some significant reenacted dialogue from spouses and police and jury are such fine actors as Lee Turgesen, ... Read More
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