Although it is a documentary, it tells the dramatic story that took place in May of 2000, when Mary Ann Stephens, a 65-year old woman tourist, was shot and killed walking out of her hotel room with her husband in Jacksonville, Florida. The movie is extremely dramatic, very clean, and a lesson in faith and justice. It was just brought to our attention by a Liberty Law school that was asking if they should show the movie in their school. REVIEW: AMERICA UNDERCOVER: MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING is an academy award-winning documentary produced by HBO, that played in theaters just long enough to get an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 2001. ![]() GENRE: Documentary/Biography/Law & Crime/Race & Ethnicity TITLE: AMERICA UNDERCOVER: MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNINGĮXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Christine Le Goff, Denis Poncet, and Ives Jeanneau.ĬONTENT: (CCC, L, V, DD, M) Extremely strong Christian worldview, with group prayer church prayer, choir singing, statements about trusting the Lord and real miracle occurs 1 obscenity and “n*gg*r” word used several times in court testimony discussions of murders, pictures of a murdered body, picture of a boy’s face having been beaten up no sex no nudity constant smoking no drinking and, lying and falsifying evidence by police officers and detectives. This documentary truly deserved the Academy Award. The jeopardy never lets up, and the documentary is constructed to keep the audience guessing. The only negatives in the movie are the one obscenity, the “n” word that was several times, and the chain-smoking habit of Pat McGuinness, who in spite of his addiction is a major hero. MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING is a riveting, exciting, faith-filled documentary that is an extremely dramatic, clean, lesson in faith and justice. The police literally railroaded Brendon by manufacturing evidence and coercing a confession, but the good news was that, thanks to the prayers of Brendon’s parents and church, the public defender, Pat McGuinness, not only rescued Brendon, but also exposed the corruption in the police department. Fearing that the murder would kill the tourist industry, the sheriffs’ deputies and detectives quickly picked up a studious, 15-year old boy named Brendon Butler. ![]() AMERICA UNDERCOVER: MURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNING tells the dramatic story that took place in May of 2000, when Mary Ann Stephens, a 65-year old woman tourist, was shot and killed leaving her hotel room with her husband in Jacksonville, Florida.
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