Crime / Drama
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets…


P.J. 'Jim' McNeal

Frank W. Wiecek

Brian Kelly

Laura McNeal

Wanda Skutnik

Tillie Wiecek

Helen Wiecek

K.L. Palmer

Parole Board Chairman

Sam Faxon

Martin J. Burns

Taxicab Driver (uncredited)

Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.