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Long Shot

  • TV Movie
  • 20172017
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 40m
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Long Shot (2017)
Juan Catalan was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. To save his life, all he had to do was prove he was one of 56,000 people at a Dodgers Game that night.
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When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he didn't commit, he builds his case around raw footage from the popular TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he didn't commit, he builds his case around raw footage from the popular TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he didn't commit, he builds his case around raw footage from the popular TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).
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    • Jacob LaMendola
  • Stars
    • Tasha Boggs
    • Juan Catalan
    • Melissa Catalan
    • Jacob LaMendola
  • Stars
    • Tasha Boggs
    • Juan Catalan
    • Melissa Catalan
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    Tasha Boggs
    • Self - Nextel Employee
    Juan Catalan
    Juan Catalan
    • Self
    Melissa Catalan
    • Self - Juan's Daughter
    Miguel Catalan
    • Self - Juan's Cousin
    • (archive footage)
    Larry David
    Larry David
    • Self
    Leslie Dunn
    • Self - Judge
    Sam Fernandez
    Sam Fernandez
    • Self - General Counsel, LA Dodgers
    Eric Gagne
    Eric Gagne
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Robert Gajic
    Robert Gajic
    • Self
    Tim Gibbons
    Tim Gibbons
    • Self
    Marcus Giles
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Todd Melnik
    Todd Melnik
    • Self
    Alma Oseguera
    • Self - Juan's Girlfriend
    Martin Pinner
    • Self - Detective
    • (archive footage)
    Juan Rodriguez
    • Self - Detective
    • (archive footage)
    Beth Silverman
    • Self - Deputy District Attorney
    • (archive footage)
    Kym Whitley
    Kym Whitley
    • Self
    Deborah Wong Yang
    • Self - United States Attorney
    • (archive footage)
      • Jacob LaMendola
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    • Trivia
      The title of this documentary, "Long Shot," has a double meaning. Crowd footage at a baseball game is likely to be filmed from a distance - the definition of a "long shot" in camerawork parlance. And there was only a very small chance that Catalan's lawyers would be able to find any footage exonerating him - so their defense strategy was figuratively a "long shot."
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      Larry David: Maybe, I don't know, every few years, somebody will bring it up or something and I'll tell the story. Maybe I'll tell it at a party, how I got a guy off of a murder. You know. Um. Impress a date with it, I don't know.

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      Featured in Jeremy Vine: Episode #4.40 (2021)

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    6/10
    Curb Your Apathy
    An award-winning, short but to-the-point Netflix documentary exposing yet another example of inept, lazy or at worst prejudicial policing in America, depending on your point of view. Personally, I've lately seen so many mini-series and movies on similar miscarriages of justice, that I think I know which way I'm leaning.

    Here, a young Latin-American male, called Juan Catalan, admittedly with a previous, though long time ago criminal record and blood-connected to an older brother with a more serious criminal history, finds himself being charged with the execution-like murder of a 16 year old young woman who was a witness to a crime. The proof presented by two of L.A.'s finest mainly centres on a witness who recollects the presence of a man of similar appearance in the vicinity of the crime scene at the time of the deed. The police pair then concoct a motive, so that when they forcibly take him downtown and charge him, it's clear they're looking for a quick confession and easy conviction.

    Given that the slaying took place some time previously, the young man and his girlfriend struggle to remember his exact whereabouts at the time, but then he remembers he attended a baseball match with his young daughter that very night. But how to prove his story adds up? Enter the long arm of coincidence, when, as it transpires, that very night, the popular TV show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" was filming a scene on location in the same baseball stadium at the very time and almost the same place the defendant claimed to have been there. Is it just possible that the man and his daughter might be in the background of the TV footage, to give credence to his alibi in defence?

    One suspects this programme could have easily been extended to two or three episodes to more thoroughly investigate the doings of the two blinkered detectives and the wider implications of a possibly racially-motivated arrest. I didn't really appreciate either the massive close-ups of the interviewees and thought maybe too much credit was afforded to Larry David for his accidental part in helping clear the young man as well as the way he then milks it. Neither of the two offending cops is punished too much, at least so it seemed to me, for his zeal / bias although at least the city of Los Angeles did make a cash settlement to Mr Catalan in mitigation of his mistreatment.

    Perhaps even extended by one episode, I do think that this nevertheless revealing documentary could have been made even more effective, but at least the cameras were there to expose yet another glaringly obvious travesty of justice in America, where an innocent young man could have been serving life imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit. In fact, four gangland youths were later apprehended and once convicted, duly received that very sentence leaving as ever, the abiding thought as to how many other innocents currently find themselves in prison or worse, are on death row, under similarly contrived charges. Answers on a postcard please to the U.S. Justice Secretary...
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      • September 29, 2017 (United States)
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