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Murder on a Sunday Morning

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Producer(s)	Denis Poncet
Director(s)	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Release Date	2003
Runtime	111 min
Format(s)	video, DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

This gripping, edge-of-your-seat whodunit catapulted to the top of "must see" lists everywhere when it emerged to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. When 15-year-old Brenton Butler is arrested for the murder of Mary Ann Stephens, everyone involved with the case, from investigators to journalists, is ready to condemn him, except his lawyer, Patrick McGuiness. A dazzling and magnetic presence of Hollywood proportions, McGuiness reopens the inquiry, and in a dramatic and absolutely spine-tingling sequence of events, he and his team discover a slew of shocking and troubling elements about the case. Did Brenton write his own confession? Where is the concrete evidence? And most importantly, can the police be lying?