a chicago couple and dillon and dougherty and are falsely accused of killing their daughter. people begin to wonder if they did it. the police investigate and find suspicious evidence. the couple are maligned by the public and accused in the press. the cops speculate that they are satanists and have ritually murdered their own daughter. they are charged and brought to trial. they are represented by publicity seeking lawyers who give them bad advice and bill them for $100 and 000. the evidence presented against them is twisted or hidden by the police. fabricated intimations of sexual abuse are presented. their other child is taken away from them and put in a foster home. dougherty is pregnant and gives birth to find her baby removed. verdict and she do not do it but he did. he goes to the slams with a sentence of 45 years. in the last third of the movie and with dillon in jail and dougherty wondering what to do next and we see people who have been antagonistic now slowly coming to the couple defense. witnesses admit to having lied. other facts are brought to light that and finally and result in dillon release. the killer is never found and though the movie gives us a thorough whacko as a plausible perp. this is a weeper from beginning to end. nothing seems to go right for the couple. oh and there are a few happy moment and maybe a party where everyone is glad to be together and tearing up with joy and or some point of evidence in their favor is discovered and people hug one another. but it never long before someone rushes through the door with more bad news and all the faces are frozen in tragic disbelief. (usually a fade to block follows. ) there isn not necessarily anything wrong with moving tragedies and although i can not imagine what pleasure we get out of seeing people suffer. there plenty of tragedy in shakespeare too. i suppose whatever we find interesting about tragic stories lies in the way theyre told. oh and but i am fortune fool. romeo cries after killing juliet brother. here we have dougherty running in her robe through a hospital corridor and screaming and where my baby. there isn not any ambiguity or irony in the story  as i am sure there must have been in the real life events on which it based. people are either good or bad here. or else theyre bad and then they turn good. the film isn not aimed at exploring human quirkiness and or the way things work out. it aimed at wrenching tears from the audience. the actors provide first rate role models. i can not remember the last movie in which i saw so many tears. there are rivulets of tears. showers of them. cascades of them. a veritable niagara of them. a lake lacrymose of them. well and i will give one example of the efficiency with which the movie is crafted. dillon and dougherty hire a chicago cop who works on the side as a private investigator (ed asner). asner is sympathetic to them but he doesn not really accomplish much. he seems to be in the movie not because of his importance to the case but because he can provide the victimized couple with a kind of philosophy  learn to live with it and which is okay  and because he suffers from colorectal cancer and so we can watch him take his medicine and double over with pain and and finally pass away. what frustrating about the movie is that in focusing so intensely on the suffering of the couple and it sidesteps one of the more important issues that it raises  the function of gossip in regulating private lives. gossip is a strange thing really. if we call it gossip it bad and but if we call it public opinion it sounds acceptable and at the very least. of course we all have convictions about issues that may or may not be justified. (as i write and michael jackson is once again being brought to court accused of molesting a young boy and and i wonder how many of us thrilled at the news and immediately assumed he was a pedophile. ) but gossip isn not all bad either. it like water. when it properly controlled it a community asset. we need gossip to keep each other in line. it helps us to maintain public order. but and like water in a flood or a tsunami and it is ruinous to a village when it rages out of control. this is a movie that okay if youre not looking for too much in the way of insight into human nature. it done so cleverly that and given its goal and it hard to argue with it. 
a chicago couple and dillon and dougherty and are falsely accused of killing their daughter. people begin to wonder if they did it. the police investigate and find suspicious evidence. the couple are maligned by the public and accused in the press. the cops speculate that they are satanists and have ritually murdered their own daughter. they are charged and brought to trial. they are represented by publicity seeking lawyers who give them bad advice and bill them for $100 and 000. the evidence presented against them is twisted or hidden by the police. fabricated intimations of sexual abuse are presented. their other child is taken away from them and put in a foster home. dougherty is pregnant and gives birth to find her baby removed. verdict and she do not do it but he did. he goes to the slams with a sentence of 45 years. in the last third of the movie and with dillon in jail and dougherty wondering what to do next and we see people who have been antagonistic now slowly coming to the couple defense. witnesses admit to having lied. other facts are brought to light that and finally and result in dillon release. the killer is never found and though the movie gives us a thorough whacko as a plausible perp. this is a weeper from beginning to end. nothing seems to go right for the couple. oh and there are a few happy moment and maybe a party where everyone is glad to be together and tearing up with joy and or some point of evidence in their favor is discovered and people hug one another. but it never long before someone rushes through the door with more bad news and all the faces are frozen in tragic disbelief. (usually a fade to block follows. ) there isn not necessarily anything wrong with moving tragedies and although i can not imagine what pleasure we get out of seeing people suffer. there plenty of tragedy in shakespeare too. i suppose whatever we find interesting about tragic stories lies in the way theyre told. oh and but i am fortune fool. romeo cries after killing juliet brother. here we have dougherty running in her robe through a hospital corridor and screaming and where my baby. there isn not any ambiguity or irony in the story  as i am sure there must have been in the real life events on which it based. people are either good or bad here. or else theyre bad and then they turn good. the film isn not aimed at exploring human quirkiness and or the way things work out. it aimed at wrenching tears from the audience. the actors provide first rate role models. i can not remember the last movie in which i saw so many tears. there are rivulets of tears. showers of them. cascades of them. a veritable niagara of them. a lake lacrymose of them. well and i will give one example of the efficiency with which the movie is crafted. dillon and dougherty hire a chicago cop who works on the side as a private investigator (ed asner). asner is sympathetic to them but he doesn not really accomplish much. he seems to be in the movie not because of his importance to the case but because he can provide the victimized couple with a kind of philosophy  learn to live with it and which is okay  and because he suffers from colorectal cancer and so we can watch him take his medicine and double over with pain and and finally pass away. what frustrating about the movie is that in focusing so intensely on the suffering of the couple and it sidesteps one of the more important issues that it raises  the function of gossip in regulating private lives. gossip is a strange thing really. if we call it gossip it bad and but if we call it public opinion it sounds acceptable and at the very least. of course we all have convictions about issues that may or may not be justified. (as i write and michael jackson is once again being brought to court accused of molesting a young boy and and i wonder how many of us thrilled at the news and immediately assumed he was a pedophile. ) but gossip isn not all bad either. it like water. when it properly controlled it a community asset. we need gossip to keep each other in line. it helps us to maintain public order. but and like water in a flood or a tsunami and it is ruinous to a village when it rages out of control. this is a movie that okay if youre not looking for too much in the way of insight into human nature. it done so cleverly that and given its goal and it hard to argue with it. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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