Movie
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Overview
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
Details
- Release date
- 1995-05-20
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- HBO Films, Abby Mann Productions, Breakheart Films, Janet Yang Productions, Ixtlan Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Woods as Danny Davis
- Mercedes Ruehl as Lael Rubin
- Lolita Davidovich as Kee McFarlane
- Sada Thompson as Virginia McMartin
- Henry Thomas as Ray Buckey
- Shirley Knight as Peggy Buckey
- Mark Blum as Wayne Satz
- Alison Elliott as Peggy Ann Buckey
- Chelsea Field as Christine Johnson
- Joe Urla as Glenn Stevens
- Scott Waara as Dean Gits
- Valerie Wildman as Diana Sullivan
Crew
- Mick Jackson - Director
- Abby Mann - Screenplay
- Myra Mann - Screenplay
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