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Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2014 123movies

Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2014 123movies

One woman's trial, a nation's entertainment.Jan. 17, 2014102 Min.
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Watch: Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the consciousness of America. From gavel to gavel, a nation tuned in, and reality TV was born. Pulsating with sex, drugs, betrayal, and murder, the trial inspired 20 years of television shows, books, plays, and movies, including To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Gus Van Sant..
Plot: In an extraordinary and tragic American story, a small town murder becomes one of the highest profile cases of all time. From its historic role as the first televised trial to the many books and movies made about it, the film looks at the media’s enduring impact on the case.
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6.5/10 Votes: 1,053
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N/A Votes: 23 Popularity: 4.195 | TMDB

Reviews:

Obvious Biases
Although this was interesting enough to give it 5 stars out of 10, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief more times than I could count at the blatant bias towards Pam’s ‘possible’ innocence throughout the vast majority of the film. I agree that any trial that becomes a media circus does not have the feel of being a ‘fair’ trial, but after seeing and hearing the evidence that was presented in court, I would have no doubt voted for guilty myself. This would be based on Pam’s own words as much as anything else. I also think it is insulting to the jurors who voted for guilty to presume that their decision was entirely affected by all the media coverage. So, if you watch this, I suggest doing so with a grain of salt.
Review By: mandagrammy
Dishonest director with an agenda, nothing more.
I live in Londonderry, New Hampshire, walking distance to where this entire Pamela Smart saga occurred. I also collect documentaries and have been a student of the genre for many years. In both areas of knowledge, this “documentary” is breathtakingly bad: it is a distortion of the evidentiary facts of the Smart case and it is an amateurish production concocted by a director hell-bent on convincing the gullible that Pamela Smart is innocent.

Was the Smart case a big media story here in little New Hampshire? Of course it was. But is this the reason Pamela Smart was found guilty? Hell, no. Pamela Smart convicted Pamela Smart: her entire “defense” was that she didn’t sexually manipulate the child student of hers, Flynn, into killing her husband, and that she didn’t even know about it until afterwards. 25 years later, this director is trying to get us to buy the same story.

Unfortunately for him, reasonable people who listen to the secret tape recordings of Smart made prior to her arrest, come to the same conclusion the reasonable people of her jury came to: this “defense” is a ridiculous lie. But why let facts get in the way of a good story, right? Except that this HBO piece is not a good story, it’s an example of the worst of propaganda films: twist and contort the facts, aggrandize speculation and minor details, hide or discount the facts that don’t fit in with your agenda. This director’s agenda is to elevate Pamela Smart to the status of a wrongly-convicted heroine. This is absurd to those who actually know the case. Gregg Smart was an innocent 24-year-old who has spent the last 25 years in the cold ground of East Derry Cemetery, put there by pedophile Pamela Smart and the boys she so clearly manipulated to kill him (for the life insurance money she would get). Giving this cretin any voice to spew her long-ago-disproved lies is bordering on evil, in my opinion.

Instead of wasting your time with this ridiculous propaganda film, read the transcripts of the tape recordings Smart’s attorneys desperately tried to prevent the jury from hearing (available online). You will be stunned, her guilt is so obvious. Media coverage had nothing to do with Smart’s conviction: every juror said the same thing: it was the tapes.

As Smart herself puts it in one of the tapes, as she’s trying to prevent her intern from cooperating with police, “If you tell the truth you’re gonna have to send Bill, you’re gonna have to send Pete, you’re gonna have to send J.R. and you’re gonna have to send me to the (expletive) slammer for the rest of our entire life,”. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe the new “truth” that she had nothing to do with it and is an innocent heroine convicted because of media coverage. It is simply absurd. This “director” is just an amateur who made one previous short film about his own father, nothing more; he is desperate to find material, apparently. Don’t be sucked in by his distortions and spin: read the transcripts instead.

I’ll leave you with some other parts of the police transcripts of Smart’s statements to Cecilia Pierce and you decide if there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of her being innocent:

“I’m afraid one day you’re gonna come in here and you’re gonna be wired by the (expletive) police and I’m gonna be busted,”

(Busted? But I thought you were innocent, Pam.)

On the subject of Ralph Welch, another high school kid, who one of her accomplices told about the murder:

“Nothing was going wrong until (expletive) they told Ralph. . . . It’s their (expletive)faults . . . that they told Ralph, you know,”

Later, when her arrest seemed imminent: “I don’t know what the hell’s going’on … All I know is that, uh, pretty soon J.R. is probably gonna roll.”

(Why would an innocent person care if one of the murderers would “roll” and tell the police everything?)

Smart was hoping that the court would deem as juveniles the 15-year-olds she sent to kill her husband so that they wouldn’t turn on her:

“You know, if they get certified as juveniles, then nobody will ever know anything, and they’ll all be out in a year, you know, when they turn 18. …”

(What does innocent Pam mean by “ever know anything”?)

She then tells Pierce her plan if the kids are certified as adults:

Pierce: “He’s going to say that you knew about it before it happened, which is the truth.” (if J.R. does “roll”)

Smart: “Right, … Well, so then I’ll have to say, ‘No, I didn’t’ and then they’re either gonna believe me or they are gonna believe J.R.-sixteen-years-old-in-the-slammer. And then who (will they believe)? Me, with a professional reputation, and of course that I teach. You know, that’s the thing. They are going to believe me.”

NONE OF THESE QUOTES are even MENTIONED in this “documentary”. All this dishonest director does is try to make the viewer think that that the tapes are corrupted and should be IGNORED because of ….let’s see…’quality issues’ and ‘inaudible parts’. Oh, and if you don’t buy that because the AUDIBLE parts incriminate Smart so absolutely, then Smart was simply PRETENDING to be involved in the murder, conducting her ‘own investigation’ into her husband’s brutal death. Really? That’s the best you can do?

Pamela Smart is absolutely guilty and should rot in prison for the rest of her miserable life. Do not get caught up in this film’s web of lies wherein Smart is an innocent heroine and the boys she corrupted and doomed are to blame for her imprisonment. That is a concocted fairy tale.

Review By: dg-dg

Other Information:

Original Title Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
Release Date 2014-01-17
Release Year 2014

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-14
Genre Documentary, Crime
Director Jeremiah Zagar
Writer N/A
Actors Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt
Country United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A

Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2014 123movies
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart 2014 123movies
Original title Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
TMDb Rating 6.2 23 votes

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