Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the c... Read allLoretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
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- TriviaA house in Belmont, Massachusetts, stood in for the home of reporter Loretta McLaughlin. That same day, the Winn Brook Elementary School was transformed into the Cambridge Police Department for second unit filming. The school was paid $5,000 to be in the film.
- GoofsA title at the end of the film said, "George Nassar is still in prison in Massachusetts." The New York Times reported on March 28, 2023, that he had actually died in prison in 2018 at the age of 86.
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George Nassar: See, you all created a myth, and it needed to be stopped. People wanted to believe it was Al, but they needed to believe it was Albert. The alternative was just too disturbin'.
Loretta McLaughlin: What's that?
George Nassar: There are many Albert DeSalvos out there. And your safe little world is just a delusion. Men kill women. It didn't start with Albert. Sure as hell doesn't end with him neither.
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No, it's not Zodiac by Fincher, it's a new movie about the Boston Strangler. The source material and the cast are excellent, the subject matter is fascinating and the story is famous but long forgotten. This is indeed a movie that in the hands of a great director like Fincher would make the viewer sit on the edge of their sit. But the writer and director of this movie opts for slow pace, bland murder scenes and makes some odd choices that seem to bring down the tension and the suspense. Something like a reverse Hitchcock.
However, the genre of investigative cinema is always fascinating and whether the movie is called Zodiac, Zero Dark Thirty or Spotlight, there is always something to savor.
In this case, it is the impeccable acting by Ms Knightly who seems to carry the movie with ease and proves yet again that she is a fantastic actress that has lately been overlooked. Her silent yet expressive performance is fantastic. She is a woman of few words but a thousand expressions. Without her, this movie would be way more boring and bland, but she saves the day, Omar-Sharif-in-Dr-Zhivago-style.
However this movie does get a little flat, and maybe a little disappointing in its final act, unlike Zodiac where Fincher made you completely freak out! But not every movie can be a masterpiece.
A must watch for fans of this genre, and generally highly recommended.
Even if this is not your favorite kind of movie, it still is very much worth seeing.
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- Mar 22, 2023
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- Бостонський душитель
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- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1