Set and filmed in and near Newton Massachusetts areas, the story focuses on a standard well-off family. Dad is the assistant district attorney with a stellar reputation. The son, Jacob, is 14 and one day one of his classmates is discovered dead in the park, stabbed with a knife. There are no suspects until a fingerprint on the dead boy's sweatshirt matches Jacob's. Everything changes, the family goes through what no family should.
Is Jacob really guilty, or is his story accurate? He eventually said he found the boy and grabbed his clothes to turn him over. But why didn't he report it right away? Why didn't he try to get help?
This is a fictional story, the product of the author's imagination. Still it gets you to think and is so well produced that I found myself always wondering where the next chapter would lead and what would be revealed.
I was able to watch this at home on a three DVD set from my public library. It is presented in eight episodes, most of them around 48 to 50 minutes, the last one just over an hour. Some ambiguities remain, not everything is tied up neatly as it ends but viewers can use facts and situations to draw conclusions. Whether every viewer agrees doesn't matter.
My wife chose not to see this because she had read the source book and already knew how it would turn out. I suppose. We haven't compared the two presentations.
Is Jacob really guilty, or is his story accurate? He eventually said he found the boy and grabbed his clothes to turn him over. But why didn't he report it right away? Why didn't he try to get help?
This is a fictional story, the product of the author's imagination. Still it gets you to think and is so well produced that I found myself always wondering where the next chapter would lead and what would be revealed.
I was able to watch this at home on a three DVD set from my public library. It is presented in eight episodes, most of them around 48 to 50 minutes, the last one just over an hour. Some ambiguities remain, not everything is tied up neatly as it ends but viewers can use facts and situations to draw conclusions. Whether every viewer agrees doesn't matter.
My wife chose not to see this because she had read the source book and already knew how it would turn out. I suppose. We haven't compared the two presentations.