In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it "the crime of the century." But the truth about what really happened didn't become clear until after the five had spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit. With THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, this story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves. Based on Sarah Burns' best-selling book and co-directed by her husband David McMahon and father, the beloved doc filmmaker Ken Burns, this incendiary film tells the riveting tale of innocent young men scapegoated for a heinous crime, and serves as a mirror for our times. (c) IFC Films
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Release Date : Nov 23, 2012 Limited
Mpaa Rating : Unrated Genre Movie :Documentary,Special Interest
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Ed Koch,David Dinkins, Sr.,Craig Steven Wilder,Calvin O. Butts III,Jim Dwyer,Natalie Byfield,Michael Warren,Lynnell Hancock,Kevin Michael Richardson,Raymond Santana,Yusef Salaam,Korey Wise
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It's a vivid and gripping documentary (although, at two hours, somewhat longer than it needs to be), a grave indictment of a city and a system at the breaking point.
David Hiltbrand-Philadelphia Inquirer Expect your blood pressure to rise during The Central Park Five.
Linda Barnard-Toronto Star The doc is rife with smart or wrenching or shameful moments. The fresh interviews with the accused, now men, are invaluable.
Lisa Kennedy-Denver Post As grim a portrait of the criminal justice system as can be imagined.
Tom Long-Detroit News How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one.
Michael O'Sullivan-Washington Post "The Central Park Five" is a sobering indictment of racism and vigilante justice, yet it is constrained by a PBS-style deference to the very system it critiques.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch It's more like an interesting, in-depth article in The New Yorker than a movie.
Eric D. Snider-Twitch The film, in some ways a primer on the perennial intractability of racial prejudice, clearly intends to be some sort of vindication of its five central figures. It succeeds in the first respect but falls wide of the mark in the second.
Chris Chang-Film Comment Magazine The filmmakers do a tremendous job of setting the mood and mind-set of New Yorkers in the spring of 1989, when violent crime was rampant and the Big Apple was rotting to the core.
Al Alexander-The Patriot Ledger Burns and Co. once again nail the complexity of history with traditionally eye-opening results, yet The Central Park Five isn't quite as comprehensive as hoped, capping such profound pain with a few nagging question marks.
Brian Orndorf-Blu-ray.com The Central Park Five takes one of the most sensational crimes of the late 20th century and strips the circus that followed down to its roots. The horrific attack in the woods on that April night 24 years ago was just the beginning.
Sara Smith-Kansas City Star The Central Park Five," the second best documentary of 2013, examines the case, placing in perfect context of what was happening in 1989 in NYC and how it led to evil both in Central Park and in the offices of the people trying to keep us safe.
Brian Tallerico-HollywoodChicago.com When hysteria trumps innocence
Robert Denerstein-Movie Habit Like the "Paradise Lost" films, it's a shocking but clear-eyed portrait of injustice.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press The Central Park Five is such a moving piece of work, it is difficult to watch at times.
Shannon M. Houston-Paste Magazine It shows what happens when police and prosecutors abuse their power.
Robert Roten-Laramie Movie Scope Puts the crime and the times in sharp perspective.
Kelly Vance-East Bay Express Burns and company conduct a thorough, riveting investigation that does a far better job of assessing the tragedy than the justice system did two decades before. Of course, hindsight is an advantage we all take for granted.
Radheyan Simonpillai-NOW Toronto It's a gripping story that comes in a well-crafted package.
Lee Marshall-Screen International A heartbreaking expose' about a rush to judgment which ruined five, innocent young lives.
Kam Williams-AALBC.com Exclusive interviews with former heads of Israel's counter terrorism agency reveal insiders' analysis about the country's policies. Fascinating. Frightening.
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In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
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