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Murder in Greenwich
Title: Dominick
Dunne Presents: Murder In Greenwich
Region: One
Genre: Drams
Stars: Christopher
Meloni, Robert Forster, Maggie Grace, Toby Moore, Jon Foster, Beth Allen, Andrew
Mitchell, and Peter Rowley
Writer: David
Erickson
Based on the Novel
by: Mark Fuhrman
Director: Tom
McLoughlin
Running Time: 89
minutes
Extras: Bonus
Trailers
Languages English
and French Language Dolby Surround Sound
Subtitles: English
Captions and Closed Captions and French and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging: Keep
Case
Chapter Stops: 28
Sound: Dolby
Surround Sound
Year Of DVD
Release: 2003
Home Video
Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: R
Reviewer: Mark A.
Rivera
In 1975 15-year-old
Martha Moxley was beaten to death and despite being front-page news at the time,
the police were never able to crack the case. At the center of the investigation
was Kennedy family nephews Tommy and Michael Skakel. Years later, disgraced
police detective turn author Mark Fuhrman investigated the unsolved murder with
the assistance of one of the original police officers on the case. Fuhrman
exposed new evidence that led to Michael Skakel’s arrest and conviction.
This is truly an
American tragedy played with some dramatic license from the point of view of
Martha Moxley (Maggie Grace) narrating in various flashback sequences the events
that led to her own death. In between these segments is the more traditional
dramatization with Christopher Meloni embodying the role of detective turned
author Mark Fuhrman. This film does not pull any punches and does not pretend
the events surrounding the trial of O.J. Simpson did not happen. If anything we
see Fuhrman constantly reminded whether it were from appalled wealthy
Connecticut residents, African American citizens who encounter Fuhrman,
disgusted policemen, and spoiled rich kids asking Fuhrman to say racist remarks
for kicks. Yet at the heart of Meloni’s performance is not a character who is
the whipping boy for perjury, but an imperfect human being who is a bit of a
belligerent guy that appears to take some joy and ruffling a few feathers and
has no regards for the language he uses in public and yet one senses that
Fuhrman for all his faults is actually a great detective and maybe the kind of
guy one might need to solve a crime like this. His actions cannot be condoned,
but he has helped bring unsolved cases to an end so can he be redeemed if he has
paid his price for his crimes and has tried to put his expertise to use, even if
he does profit from the books and indeed this film, which he served as one of
the producers?
Robert Forster has
played the same kind of character in the past, the sort of world weary, but wise
mentor like figure, but he does such a good job at it I cannot blame anyone for
casting him in a role he could essay from across the country if he wanted. Both
Meloni and Forster are great in their roles and this movie is terrific in the
questions it raises and in the way it compels the viewer from beginning to end.
“Dominick Dunne
Presents: Murder In Greenwich” is presented in the (1.33:1) aspect ratio of
the original television exhibition as it appeared on the USA Cable Network last
year. The film was edited on video so there is the expected grain that comes
with TV productions like this, but overall the image is fine enough with a clear
English Dolby Surround Soundtrack as well as a French Language Dolby Surround
Soundtrack and English Captions and Closed Captions for the hearing impaired and
French and Spanish Language Subtitles are encoded as options. Bonus trailers for
“Auto Focus” (1:59), “Eye See you” (1:54), and “Taboo” (1:50).
The menus are
standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate. “Dominic Dunne
Presents Murder In Greenwich” will debut on DVD-Video on Tuesday May 6, 2003
from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.
© Copyright 2003
By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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