Film

The Central Park Five

Name: The Central Park Five
Director: Sarah Burns
Released: 2012
Rating: 7
Cast: Sally Field, LisaGay Hamilton, Tracy Letts, Rob Morgan, Hadley Robinson

2012 · 119 min · ★ 7 · Dir. Sarah Burns

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.