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An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
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An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

2013-03-11 · 92 min · ★ 6.9

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.

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Directors
Al Reinert
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Blue Bandana Productions
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Michael Mortonhimself

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