Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2008)
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- 1h 34min
- Documentary
- 27 Feb 2009 (USA)
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Directed by
Ted Schillinger |
Produced by
Richard Abramowitz | ... | executive producer |
Steven Holtzman | ... | line producer |
Kaki Kirby | ... | executive producer |
Bruce David Klein | ... | executive producer / producer |
Music by
Dan Dolan |
Cinematography by
Matthew Howe | ||
Ted Schillinger |
Editing by
Kendrick Simmons |
Editorial Department
Denise Garcia | ... | assistant editor |
Kim D. Hylan | ... | on-line editor (as Kim Hylan) |
Jon Koster | ... | assistant editor (as Jonathan Koster) |
Christian Ligon | ... | assistant editor |
Leo Roth | ... | assistant editor |
Production Management
Lisa Richardson | ... | production manager |
Sound Department
Jacques Boulanger | ... | sound designer |
Rex Collier | ... | sound |
Thomas Morrison | ... | sound |
Peter Stewart | ... | sound |
Visual Effects by
Mark Rowe | ... | titles/graphic designer |
Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Ansbro | ... | electrician |
Colby Gaines | ... | additional camerawork |
Michael Haertlein | ... | additional camerawork |
Samuel M. Henriques | ... | additional camerawork (as Samuel Henriques) |
Paul Jacobson | ... | additional camerawork |
Sid Lubitsch | ... | additional camerawork |
Bill McClane | ... | additional camerawork |
Robin Mueller | ... | additional camerawork |
Additional Crew
Leonard Kalcheim | ... | legal |
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- Murphy PR (publicity)
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Plot Summary |
Robert Blecker is one of the country's most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment. A self-described "emotive retributivist," Blecker teaches at the New York Law School in lower Manhattan. From there he conducts his one-man crusade to save capital punishment from the mounting wave of moratoriums and death-row commutations. Blecker teaches that death is the only just penalty for "the worst of the worst" - the small fraction of the nation's convicted murderers who have surrendered their right to live by the irredeemable viciousness of their crime. His credo is: "Some people deserve to die, and we have an obligation to kill them." Daryl Holton is one of those people. In 1997, Holton shot his four children to death with an assault rifle in Shelbyville, Tennessee. For these crimes, he was given four separate death sentences. In ROBERT BLECKER WANTS ME DEAD, we see the two men meet during Blecker's 2005 research trip to Riverbend maximum-security prison outside Nashville. For the next year and a half - by phone, by mail and even the occasional visit - the condemned man and the scholar warily spar with one another through a roller-coaster of death-watches, postponements and court-ordered stays, all the while exploring together the meaning of mercy, justice, and the morality of the death penalty. Written by Atlas Media Corp. |
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Opening Weekend United States | $4,352, 01 Mar 2009 |