True Crime
When five black and Latino teenagers were charged with the attack and rape of a female jogger in Central Park in 1989 — falsely, it turned out — the mood in New York City was one of deep-seated fear. The Central Park Five, a documentary by Ken and Sarah Burns, examines this hysteria, casting a spotlight on the mob mentality of the major news outlets and the New York Police Department’s treatment of the accused.
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2510 E. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206
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“People were afraid, period. Crime rates were much higher at the time, and there was a sense that the source of the city’s problem were these minority teenagers,” co-director Sarah Burns says of NYC’s cultural climate at the time. Though the five innocent men have since been exonerated — after some served more than a decade in prison — their story has gone largely untold…until now.
Based on Sarah Burns’s book, the movie talks to the falsely accused, former mayor Ed Koch, reporters and legal teams — contextualizing a case that was all but closed as soon as it occurred. The Central Park Five opens tonight at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue; tickets are $7 to $10 and can be purchased at the box office, at www.denverfilm.org or at 303-595-3456.
Dec. 21-27, 2012
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