Should you watch Casting JonBenet?
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Casting JonBenet
Documentary · 2017
Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.
The sides of Casting JonBenet
- Local actors auditioning to play the people in a real case
- The murder of a six-year-old girl in Boulder
- Everyone's own theory of what happened
Casting JonBenet is good for you if…
- you like a film that leaves the question open on purpose.
- you want to see how a famous crime lives on in a town's imagination.
- you like local actors whose own lives seep into the roles they audition for.
Casting JonBenet is bad for you if…
- you can't sit with the death of a child, even years later.
- you want a plain documentary, not rows of local actors playing the same parents.
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