The Thin Blue Line
Chronicling the true story of Randall Dale Adams, an ordinary innocent man, who has been falsely accused of murdering a police man in Dallas, after his car went broken in the road, leaving him alone in the road, so he receives help from a young teenager guy who stole a motorbike, the thing that brings terrible for Randall.
5 February 1948, Hewlett, Long Island, New York, USA
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19 October 1960, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
2 January 1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 December 1948, Grove City, Ohio, USA
April 17, 2001
... sets a new standardDecember 22, 2006
Arguably no other film of the 1980s, fiction or non-fiction, was as significant in blurring the boundaries between what's reel and real and in demonstrating the remarkable impact a movie could have.February 11, 2003
Furthering its genre irregularity, it employs no narration to guide the viewer, and each shot is carefully static and composed. Its central scene, even, is a fabricated element in what is largely a non-fiction film.February 13, 2006
Errol Morris' breakout documentary is immaculate.March 31, 2015
Morris was working in a dangerous middle ground between the traditional documentary and the fictional feature film, and his merging of various techniques paid off in a film of singular uniqueness in both its aesthetic approach and its real-world impact.March 23, 2015
The Thin Blue Line is one of the films that helped make documentaries a viable entertainment option for arthouse moviegoers during the indie-film boom of the 1980s and '90s.July 08, 2004
Accomplished but detached; you're pulled in, but you couldn't be blamed for resisting.November 11, 2015
...engaging as a procedural and compelling as a meditation on the nature of truth.