?Devil?s Knot? Trailer (Video) West Memphis Three Drama Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth

Watch the first official trailer of the West Memphis Three crime drama ‘Devil’s Knot’ starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. The biographical movie is based on the case of the three teenagers wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for 18 years for the murder of three young boys in Arkansas. The movie was directed by Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (‘The Sweet Hereafter,’ ‘Chloe’) and is based the book of the same title by journalist Mara Leveritt regarding the trials of Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin who were convicted for the gruesome 1993 murder of three eight-year-old Boy Scouts. They were dubbed the West Memphis Three (WM3), after the name of the small, tight-knit and religiously oriented Arkansas town where the murders took place. It was believed, falsely, that they were involved in satanism and satanic ritual practices. Reese Witherspoon portrays Pamela Hobbs, the mother of one of the victims, Stevie Branch. Colin Firth portrays Ron Lax, an investigator who is skeptical about the case against the three accused teens. The trailer gives a glimpse of a forceful yet distraught Reese Witherspoon with a Deep South accent, desperate as her son goes missing. We see the tension that [...]

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