The Central Park Five
|The Central Park Five
Status: Released
Runtime: 119
Release Date: 24/05/2012
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
Languages: English
Production: WETAFlorentine Films
Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 273747 (273747)
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.
