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After Innocence

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Jessica Sanders
Marc H. Simon
Directed by: Jessica Sanders
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 21, 2005
DVD: February 6, 2007
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Dennis Maher, Scott Hornoff, Ronald Cotton, Nick Yarris, Wilton Dedge, Herman Atkins, Vincent Moto, and Calvin Willis
This documentary tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated -- innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. (New Yorker Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Powerfully explores the struggles faced by those whom DNA testing has exonerated after years behind bars.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders's documentary After Innocence confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The moral purity of After Innocence is so overwhelming that it simply leaves you with nothing to say or do. It's kind of beyond criticism.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
What emerges from these stories is a picture of the fallibility of the system and the vulnerability of innocent citizens, whom even scientific evidence cannot protect from incompetence, ego and prejudice, and of the courage of the exonerated victims to make meaning of their tragedies.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Jeremy Mathews
Jessica Sanders has observed a collection of lives dramatically altered by a flawed legal system.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Melissa Levine
One of the powerful things about After Innocence is that, no matter what your position on punitive justice, you can't argue with the film's position.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
There's also a little something smarmy about the interactions between the lawyers and their clients, all of whom are poor.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
After Innocence isn't bravura filmmaking, and it doesn't have to be -- this is one of those documentaries where the subject is compelling enough to do the legwork.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
The embittered men make fascinating subjects.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
In her clear and compelling film, Sanders lets the innocents do the talking.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Puts a human face on the failings of the American judicial system and the growing importance of DNA in legal proceedings.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Exploring the lives of several wrongly convicted men exonerated by DNA evidence, the documentary After Innocence makes a reasonable case that compensation is due them.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though Jessica Sanders' rambling documentary about the damaged lives of wrongfully imprisoned men would have made a better subject for an hour-long "Dateline" special, it's still a powerful indictment of a judicial system too anxious to close cases, and then close ranks when someone tries to reopen them.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Taylor does her cause no real favors by trotting out only the most articulate, most clearly railroaded exonerees. It should be just as chilling to learn that even the shady get screwed.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ralphus J. gave it a9:
Bothered by Barry Scheck's role (he helped get O.J. off), but otherwise this is a nice piece of work.
