The Exonerated
Purchase a DVD copy of "The Exonerated" and help both ACLU-TN AND the Exonerees whose stories are featured in the film. HALF of the proceeds from the sale of each DVD will go to ACLU-TN, with a portion of the rest of sales going to the Exonerees. Click on the icon to the left to purchase your copy of this important film!
“4 Stars. ‘The Exonerated’” – New York Post
“4 Stars. Watch this important film.” - People Magazine
“Jolting and Powerful” – US Weekly
“Searing drama.” – Entertainment Weekly
“The performances… bring you through the journeys to hell and back.” – The Boston Globe
“Highly Recommended. Featuring a sterling cast. The Exonerated is a captivating saga, presenting its unforgettable stories in the words of the people who survived them.” - Bookwatch
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Susan Sarandon, introducing David Brown, Jr.
Written by : Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by: Bob Balaban
Sixteen years.
Imagine everything you could do with sixteen years.
Imagine everything you did the last sixteen years.
Now take it all away.
Sunny Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Sixteen years was just the beginning of what was taken from Sunny Jacobs.
Twenty-nine Academy Award nominations, eighty-seven Golden Globe nominations, one hundred and twelve EMMY nominations… such is the incredible array of actors who have lent their considerable talents and passion to “The Exonerated”. As a play, awarded the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, it was acclaimed in major cities across America.
Now as a film, the undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelope you in their search for the lost small pieces of dignity and the lives so unceremoniously interrupted. True stories in their own words. Stories you will never forget.
