1995

Indictment: The McMartin Trial
HBO movie
Mick Jackson, director
Diana B. Pokorny, unit production manager
Aaron Barsky, first assistant director
Barbara Ravis, second assistant director

Jackson and scripters Abby and Myra Mann pose provocative questions in this docu-drama about the nationally aired accusations of epidemic child molestation that rocked a Manhattan Beach, Calif., day-care center in the 1980s. Seven defendents were accused, lurid video-taped testimony was aired in the media as public hysteria mounted and the trial lasted a record six years. Eventually everyone was dismissed while reputations were ruined. James Woods plays defense lawyer Danny Davis and the support includes Mercedes Reuhl, Sada Thompson, Shirley Knight, Lolita Davidovich, Henry Thomas and Alison Elliott.