SummaryHayden Panettiere and Marcia Gay Harden star in a made-for-TV movie based on the story of the American student, Amanda Knox (Panettiere), who was accused of murdering her roommate while they were studying in Italy.
SummaryHayden Panettiere and Marcia Gay Harden star in a made-for-TV movie based on the story of the American student, Amanda Knox (Panettiere), who was accused of murdering her roommate while they were studying in Italy.
This ethically debatable movie depicts her as a brat abroad, enjoying sex and drugs with her boyfriend, and implies Knox (who is appealing her conviction) did the deed.
Ultimately, though, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy isn't as sensational as it might have been. It unfolds without too much of the lurid caricature of so many other Lifetime movies.
If anything, it moves so tentatively through the baffling investigation and trial that Hayden Panettiere seems to play a dozen Amandas: cheerful, furtive, erratic--and at times literally clueless. [28 Feb 2011, p.40]