Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when they try to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when they try to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when they try to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 14 wins & 55 nominations total
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- TriviaScreenwriter J. Michael Straczynski first learned of the story of Christine Collins from an unnamed source at Los Angeles City Hall. The source had stumbled across case files regarding the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders among other discarded documents scheduled for destruction. Straczynski took the files and became obsessed with the case, doing extensive research over the course of a year. He tried to make it into a television project, but never found a solid way to do that. Virtually every event depicted in this movie appears as cited in legal documents, with dialogue often taken verbatim from court transcripts. Straczynski wrote his first draft of the screenplay in only 11 days.
- GoofsDetective Ybarra uses the term "serial killer," coined by FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler in the 1970s.
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[last lines]
Christine Collins: Three boys made a run for it that night, Detective, and if one got out, then maybe either or both of the other two did too. Maybe Walter's out there having the same fears that he did. Afraid to come home and identify himself, or afraid to get in trouble. But either way, it gives me something I didn't have before today.
Detective Lester Ybarra: What's that?
Christine Collins: Hope.
- Crazy creditsThe black-and-white Universal logo used in the 1940s opens the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2009)
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- Sự Hoài Nghi
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- Budget
- $55,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,739,802
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $489,015
- Oct 26, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $113,398,237
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1