Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dual tragedy in Jackson Township, a New York City suburb of 36,000, cut to parents' worst fears about how much freedom they can really afford children to roam sidewalks or cyberspace. Community members and the local press were quick to ascribe larger blame for the horrid crime. Shouldn't the unregulated Internet be made accountable? Or the depressing lyrics of the rock songs Sam Manzie loved? Or the Christa McAuliffe Middle School for allowing students to solicit door to door...
Youngworth says he and Connor had nothing to do with the original crime, and he has a pretty good alibi: both were in prison at the time. Youngworth now faces up to 15 years in prison on the auto-theft conviction. Last month he met privately with Gardner directors and reportedly extracted a $10,000 down payment on a reward for promising to produce some of the stolen goods. He will probably try to negotiate down his sentence in exchange for more details. All things considered, that may be a small price to pay for figuring out who pulled...
...Crime 15% 13% 17% Racism/Race Relations...
...local ladies swoon at his touch. "To a certain type of woman," he notes, "I am a hero. I need to be a hero." Eve and her sister Cisely (Meagan Good), 14, need him to be one too, and when he proves a sinner, they are devastated. His crime may have been that he didn't dance with Eve or that he danced too close to Cisely. But since Aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan) tells fortunes, and lives out bad ones, Eve is a voodoo priestess once removed. Her curse on her daddy could be fatal...
...suspension of disbelief is not the story's main problem. Some unbelievable scenes, especially those featuring Byrne staring wide-eyed at one of his many TV monitors and zooming into a crime scene, are very eerie and effective. Ethereal music highlights the film's disturbing implications...