An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

"Truth Matters."

Mar 11 2013 Not Rated 1h 30m
Biography, Crime, Documentary

In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, a team of dedicated attorneys spends years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom.

Plot

'Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.' - Justice Learned Hand, 1923. The prospect of unjust imprisonment is a plight both easily imagined and terrifying, and we all wonder how we might fare in such a grim circumstance. No case in modern America illuminates this condition more completely than the story of Michael Morton. In 1986, his young wife was brutally murdered in front of their only child, and he was accused and convicted of the crime, spending a quarter century in Texas prisons. His unreal dream was and is a powerful journey through despair and abandonment to a greater freedom than most of us know, but all can appreciate.

Written by

Al Reinert

Directed by

Al Reinert, John Dean, Nellie Gonzalez

Cast

Nellie Gonzalez, Michael Morton, John Raley

Crew

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Production Companies

Blue Bandana Productions

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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Average Rating
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