Scenes of a Crime

Name: Scenes of a Crime
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Documentary
Released: March 30, 2012
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 71

2012

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Submarine Entertainment | Release Date: March 30, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: What might lead an innocent man to confess to something he didn’t do?
When Adrian Thomas walked into the Troy, New York police station and waived his Miranda rights, he didn’t know he was being video-recorded.
His four-month-old baby lay brain-dead in a pediatric ICU. The doctors believed it was “shaken baby” abuse, and Adrian ThomasWhat might lead an innocent man to confess to something he didn’t do?
When Adrian Thomas walked into the Troy, New York police station and waived his Miranda rights, he didn’t know he was being video-recorded.
His four-month-old baby lay brain-dead in a pediatric ICU. The doctors believed it was “shaken baby” abuse, and Adrian Thomas became the main suspect. And so began a psychological battle: the detectives repeatedly lied to – and manipulated – their suspect. And they reassured Adrian Thomas that if he told them what happened, the police would view it as an accident, without jail time. For the next several hours, the detectives used an array of powerful psychological techniques to ramp up the pressure and eventually extracted a confession. (Submarine Entertainment)… Expand

Director: Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock

Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Kenneth Turan

Apr 13, 2012

A cool documentary that makes the blood boil, it examines how people can be psychologically manipulated into confessing. Not only to crimes they may not have committed but, even worse, to crimes that may never have happened. Read full review

Nick Schager

Mar 28, 2012

A true-crime documentary of invigorating analytical clarity and evenhandedness. Read full review

Mark Holcomb

Mar 27, 2012

What's remarkable about Scenes of a Crime, besides Hadaegh and Babcock's ability to stay out of the way of their story and resist flashy graphical flourishes, is the degree to which the events it reveals are business as usual. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Mar 29, 2012

This smart, cool-headed film, which has a "Rashomon"-like vision of the case, presents a disturbing picture of courtroom justice and how different people come to opposite conclusions, based on the same testimony. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Mar 27, 2012

This impassioned documentary could have the same real-world impact as Errol Morris's "The Thin Blue Line," and help to free a wrongly convicted man. The filmmaking could be better, but it's hard to argue with that kind of potential. Read full review

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