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Director:
Andrew Mondshein
Writers (WGA):
Thomas H. Cook (book)
Dalene Young (teleplay)
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Release Date:
13 April 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
When a Pulitzer prize winning author of true crimes returns to his hometown in Georgia, it isn't long... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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David Strathairn ... Jackson Kinley

Mary McDonnell ... Dora Overton

Sean McCann ... Theodore Warfield
Chris Wiggins ... Horace Talbott
Jackie Burroughs ... Granny Dollar
Nancy Beatty ... Mrs. Dinker
Marnie McPhail ... Edna Mae Kinley
Bernard Behrens ... Dr. Vernon Stark

Mert Hatfield ... Thomas Warfield

Dean McDermott ... Young Harlan Wade
Géza Kovács ... Luther Snow
Doug Lennox ... Harlan Wade
Linda Goranson ... Mrs. Hunter
Stuart Hughes ... Young Luther Snow
Norma Dell'Agnese ... Kitty Slater
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements.
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Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:PG-13 | Argentina:13
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company:
MGM Television more

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Good Actors Stuck in Slow-Moving Script, 7 December 2000
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Author: baker-9 from United States

While it can be refreshing to see a mystery that isn't rushed and allows actors some breathing room, "Evidence of Blood" still takes too long to start putting all it's pieces together, and then rushes to finish things up. The climax is certainly gripping (though very contrived), but it still leaves some questions hanging in the air. Was the late Sheriff murdered? The film certainly hints at it more than once. And what was the real connection -if any - between the murdered woman and the man who was wrongly accused of her death? And the film drops the device of having Strathairn's character watch the video interview of a serial killer he's using as a book subject. That device doesn't illuminate the writer's character all that much, and it's existence only seems to matter for the killer's line "You never know who you really are" (or something like that), which figures at the film's denouement.

David Strathairn is an excellent actor with the uncanny ability to subtly make his characters seem more complex than they may be on paper (certainly the case here). Mary McDonnell does well enough, and both she and Strathairn are a good match (though I'll admit that Strathairn had more sexual chemistry with Julianne Moore in a brief scene in "A Map Of The World" than he does with McDonnell.

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