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The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (True Stories Collection)

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I teach an elective Law class to juniors and seniors and this was outstanding for dealing with interrogation, rights, etc. The acting was well done, and my students felt they benefitted greatly from researching the case and then seeing the video.

Having just finished watching this heart-wrenching movie on television, I am now motivated to lobby my state legislature to pass a law requiring video taping of all confessions. According to the information at the end of the movie, only Alaska and Minnesota require that all confessions be video taped. To see how police interrogators bullied and coerced 14-year-old Michael into making a false confession of killing his sister is a scene of vicious abuse you will never forget. Please contact your state legislature and lobby for the passage of a video taping law for confessions.

The movie is really terrible - not by its quality but by its content. A teenage girl is murdered in her room during the night. Next day the parents and their two other kids are taken to the police for interrogation. And 14-year old Michael falls under suspicion. From now on the most horrible begins for the family which already has to deal with desperation and grief after the death of their daughter, separation in the police precinct, multiple interrogations and mistrust. Detectives don't care about the truth - they need only a confession from frightened and coursed boy. And we all know cops can get a confession if they REALLY want to...
The movie demonstrates quite vividly how the juridical system works (and I'm pretty sure not only in the U.S. but in the whole world) and this demonstration frightens. It frightens you a lot. While watching you experience everything that's going on just like it happens to you and feel real pain, anger and despair. Much of it because of a compelling actors' work.
Now we get quite an understandable explanation why most people don't like cops - because those who have power often use it not to help us as they ought to but to make their own work easier. To me the most significant were the father's words in the end of the film: "What are we supposed to do now if something happens? Call emergency? THOSE cops?"
Looks like our world is the place where you can't expect help from those whose job is to help. We just have to hope nothing bad happens at all. "The Interrogation of Michael Crowe" is very truthful and strong piece of work. Don't miss it.

I had already seen this movie even before buying it. To me this shows how easy it is for anyone with a badge can abuse there power and not have to be
punished for there actions.There is a few that shouldn't be allowed to wear a badge or work in the legal system because they use there power to bully
anyone they feel like just to close a case that they have now proof to who really did the crime.We need to reform our legal system so that no matter if
someones child is 18 or younger a parent or lawyer should be there before they can be questioned.And any officer or da that breaks this law should be
disbarred as soon as proof is there and all interrogations should be video taped.

I recently saw this movie on tv and liked it so much that I ordered a copy from Amazon. Michael Crowe was questioned by the police in the disappearance of his older sister. The questioning turned into a marathon ordeal that essentially "brain washed" young Michael. What the police did was absolutely horrible and the officers that did it do not deserve to be police officers. Good acting and the movie holds your interest through out.

I was very pleased with this film it was amazingly done and I would recommend to everyone.
The horrifying true story of the Crowe family whose 12-year-old daughter, Stephanie, is brutally stabled while asleep in her own bedroom. As the family struggled to dissect the painful evidence of their daughter's death, the police pinpoint their prime suspect - her brother, Michael. Every tactic at the police's disposal is used to manipulate and bully Michael into confessing to the gruesome crime. But, is he truly responsible for her vicious death? The Interrogation of Michael Crowe stars Ally Sheedy

An original movie for Court TV, THE INTERROGATION OF MICHAEL CROWE is based on the horrifyingly true story of the Californian Crowe family's double-victimization. When 12-year-old Stephanie is stabbed in her sleep, the police working on the investigation turn to the closest suspect: her 14-year-old brother, Michael. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the policemen are doing whatever they can to cajole a confession from the boy, convinced of his guilt by such peripheral evidence as his interest in Dungeons & Dragons. Starring Ally Sheedy (THE BREAKFAST CLUB, HIGH ART) as mom Cheryl Crowe, this tragic tale of injustice sheds light on some of the faults and holes inherent in the judicial system, among which human infallibility takes its place.

ten stars easy.just go to show you again how i agree the ostensible court system for the INNOCENT and for GOOD loving parents works.As for children being falsely accused. as the length some crooked cop to caseworker for cps will go to"win or make a case"is unconstitutional downright CRIMINAL.All should be ARRESTED when such inequities,to the INNOCENT is taken place.The Interview is abhorrent and the officer who conducted such illegality involving the young boy should've been in jail,fired,reprimand,sued everything.
as, here is a distraught beyond hurt in shock,loving mother and dad,yet being treated as a criminal.

I mean just look at the parent...
She literally imploring the police to let her see her surviving kids but yet they are so misleading her,lieing to her,being so offensively intrusive,while the REAL suspect,running out there free.The System from Child Protection Service falsity and utilizing such fraud on court to remove un-abuse children from FIT good homes to the horrid abhorrent police"investigation"as portray in THIS GREAT MOVIE,depict just why so many more innocent loving good americans are going to be more"on guard"of their families,their life when it come to really being able to "trust our judicial system"
as it has fail this good family in the most abhorrent way.Alley Sheedy Was so great.
such a realistic natural woman portraying the mother,i love her since 80s movies and 90s.love her.great actin overall but she stand out to me,i love her,great movie IMO for all ages to watch and LEARN....
adios
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This movie is the worst "True Crime" movie I have ever seen. I think more than anything because it is a very disturbing and probably factual movie. Frankly I had to finally stop watching it after about a third of the way through. Even if this was most likely how these monstrous police interrogators were (and I am absolutely sure they probably were worse), I got the point early on that the whole family was being harassed and especially Michael. Maybe I enjoy more of a positive light in a movie, but I didn't need SO much demonstration of how awful the police were and can be. I really did get the point early on that there are police investigators out there who don't seek the truth, but seek an early completion of the investigation so they can file their report and go home to dinner. "Swift" justice does not always equal "true" justice. It would have been much better if they depicted the police harrassment to a lesser point and then showed the eventual true justice that came to this family and the victim. The movie became too boring to continue to watch. I may try again and fast forward through all the evil cop scenes and watch the vindication of Michael. My heart does go out to this family, though and only shows that there are police who let their power get the most of them.

I was extremely disappointed in this film. It is boring and I never completed the entire movie. This is the first time I ever saw a true story that I wouldn't finish watching. If I had seen this film beforehand I never would have purchased it.