Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

(2012)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 154 votes

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Year: 2012

Runtime: 121 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джо Берлингер, Брюс Синофски

Cast: Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., John Mark Byers, Gary Gitchell, Terry Hobbs, Lorri Davis, Don Horgan, Джонни Депп

Plot

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.

In 1993, a horrific triple child murder was discovered in West Memphis, Arkansas, but the reaction to it precipitated a horror of its own. This film follows up on the story of the three boys, called the West Memphis Three, who were convicted for this crime with questionable evidence. For years, the boys' fate sparked a mass movement striving to prove their innocence while the state is equally determined to avoid admitting it could have been wrong. Through the swirl of new evidence and suspects, the Three tell their own tale about enduring this injustice against the opinions of the victim's families in a debate that eventually came to an inadequate resolution.