Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 3, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767010728
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #497,265 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In the hundreds of thousands of cases handles by America's courts each year, it is inevitable that mistakes will be made. But while some errors are excusable, there are also troubling cases where it seems clear that the justice system has been manipulated by the very people sworn to uphold it. AMERICAN JUSTICE® chronicles the ordeal of Clarence Brandley, an African- American janitor convicted and sentenced to death for the 1980 murder of Cheryl Ferguson, a white, 16-year-old student at the school where Brandley worked. From the moment her body was discovered, the prosecution targeted Brandley. Despite missing police photos, samples of blood and semen that disappeared, changed testimony, a hung jury and a total lack of direct evidence, he was found guilty by the all-white jury. After a nine-year legal odyssey including two stays of execution Brandley's conviction was overturned. FRAMED interviews Brandley, the judge from the first trial and many others in this troubling, damning look at a dark side of justice in America.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great mini-series - but don't buy this version!!, April 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Framed (DVD)

Framed is one of Timothy Dalton's best pieces of work. But this version has been cut to shreds. The original is four hours long. With this DVD, half the film is missing and it was not padding they cut. If you can find the full version, then great, buy it. Just don't purchase the two hour version.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind boggling!, December 28, 2000

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Iris Johnson (Lacey, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Framed (DVD)

I saw this movie innitially when it came out in Europe for tv as a mini series. A few years later it was aired again on tv. I enjoyed the movie just as much the second time around as the first, and now I am buying the movie for my husband to experience it. I don't think this is the full version, as I seem to remember the movie to be much longer than 115 minutes, but maybe that is because it was cut up into episodes. If it is not the full version, then that's very dissapointing, because a dvd can hold more than enough information. Anybody know the truth on the length of this movie? I'm just puzzled since the previous reviewer mentioned this. None the less, this is a great psychological action detective to enjoy!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Try to get hold of the uncut version, June 17, 2004

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onlyme1234 "onlyme1243" (netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Framed (DVD)

Why the studio would decide to release this version is beyond my understanding. I bought this version by mistake several months ago while looking for the full version. I purchased one full-length version from ebay not long ago at a very good price and am very happy to own it (the UK 3,5 hours VHS PAL full version is deleted and you can only hope to buy it secondhand). It is as one reviewer said 'a mind boggling' thriller and lots of cuts were made that are important to the plot.

Three stars for this version, because it has been cut to shreds. The uncut version deserves its full five stars. 3,5 hours of film as opposed to the 2 hours cut version, you can imagine missing a lot of suspense!

Additional note on September 21st 2009: The R2 uncut DVD version is available.