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The Thin Blue Line
Directed by
Errol Morris
1988
1h 43m
Not Rated
Documentary
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Crime
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A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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Cast of The Thin Blue Line
Randall Adams
Self
David Harris
Self
Gus Rose
Self (Homicide Detective in Dallas)
Jackie Johnson
Self (Homicide Detective in Dallas)
The Thin Blue Line Reviews
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
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.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
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.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
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.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...engaging as a procedural and compelling as a meditation on the nature of truth.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Errol Morris' breakout documentary is immaculate.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Although The Thin Blue Line assembles an almost inassailable case... it is not a conventional documentary -- not a feature-length version of one of those 60 Minutes segments in which innocent men are rescued from Death Row.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
... sets a new standard
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
A film that provides an exhilarating study into the subjectivity of its interviewees, and by proxy, or perhaps more intentionally so, the subjectivity of documentaries.
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Sean Axmaker
Documentaries have changed minds, championed causes, and even reversed policy, but The Thin Blue Line (1988) may be the first film to free a man from prison.
House Next Door
Tina Hassannia
The Thin Blue Line is proof that sometimes, though rarely, the political impact of a film can be as tangible as an innocent man being freed from prison.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Jake Euker
Accomplished but detached; you're pulled in, but you couldn't be blamed for resisting.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
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.
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Noted as the investigative documentary that actually got a wrongly convicted man off of death row, Blue Line also inaugurated Morris' extreme-slo-mo and exploratory lyricism modes.
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