Without Evidence (1996)
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Product Details: Without Evidence (1996)
- Edition:
- DVD . See other editions
- MPAA Rating:
- Unrated
- Release Date:
- 03/25/2003
- UPC:
- 039414581324
- Directed by:
- Gill Dennis
- Featuring:
- Scott Plank, Anna Gunn (II), Andrew Prine. See all cast
Synopsis: Without Evidence (1996)
Synopis: Based on the true story of Michael Franke, the murdered Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon, WITHOUT LIMITS is a truly unsettling conspiracy film with a pre-GIA supporting performance from Jolie. Just before his murder outside a Pacific Northwest office building, Franke visits his brother and informs him of a drug ring involving his prison colleagues. When Michael is killed, his brother begins his own investigation into the murder, only to be caught in a web of lies.Features: Without Evidence (1996)
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By David Hunter
Santa Barbara -- There are no shootouts and only one major shouting match, but the true-story movie-with-a-mission "Without Evidence" is a riveting, unsettling experience. The low-budget independent is also the first to offer a reward -- $1 million -- for "voluntary testimony leading to the apprehension, arrest, conviction and sentencing of the person or persons responsible for the murder of Michael Francke on Jan. 17 or 18, 1989."
World premiering at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, "Without Evidence" is currently looking for distribution in a slightly shorter version than the two-hour version shown to a fascinated fest audience.
A terrific lead performance by Scott Plank ("Mr. Baseball") and subtle, realistic filmmaking by theater director and writer Gill Dennis (TNT's "Riders of the Purple Sage") bode well for the film as a modest, special-interest release. The real-life murder and conspiracy angle is hard to resist, with the lack of closure sending one home spooked and on edge.
Michael Francke (Ernie Garrett) visits his younger brother Kevin (Plank) in Florida during the film's opening scenes. Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon, Michael talks in passing about uncovering something wrong in his department.
With a construction business and unhappy wife, Kevin drops everything and flies to Salem when Michael is murdered in what the police believe was a robbery. From the start, the authorities are evasive and uncooperative, with the local district attorney (Alan Nause) agreeing reluctantly to provide the autopsy report at some point in the future.
Kevin begins to piece together the facts of his brother's life and wonders what threat would require the weapons left in Michael's secluded home. Kevin goes home in a very skeptical frame of mind. When only one of two men seen by witnesses around the time of the murder is considered a suspect and the autopsy report arrives with much of it censored, he becomes obsessed and begins an odyssey that is as engrossing as any fictional crime story.
He joins forces with a local television stringer (Andrew Prince), who finds Liz Godlove (Anna Gunn). She claims that her former boyfriend and son's father, Tim Natividad, boasted of killing Michael. The problem is she herself killed Tim, who had ties to a dangerous methamphetamine ring, two weeks after the brutal stabbing of Michael. A jury ruled she acted in self-defense.
Kevin asks Liz out on a date, but that unexpected turn of events is a mild twist compared to the authorities arresting, trying and convicting the wrong man. According to the filmmakers, Frank Gable (Jason Tomlins), who is currently serving a life sentence without parole, was a scapegoat. There's also a scary drug addict (Angelina Jolie, "Hackers"), who is the lowest rung of an official cover up that Michael attempts to crack with increasing peril.
Ultimately, the filmmakers' accusing finger points toward Michael's cohorts in the Department of Corrections, who may have had connections to the drug trade in prisons, but the movie stops short of posting a "Most Wanted" label on any one person.
This is a murky, dark story of America that makes its case persuasively with solid filmmaking and excellent performances, building to a chilling conclusion and bold call for the public's help in catching the real killer(s). ...