Devil's Knot Trailer, Release Date, Cast, Plot, Review

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Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth and Dane DeHaan star in the 'West Memphis Three' drama Devil's Knot, based on the 2003 bestselling book by investigative journalist Mara Leveritt. Watch the movie trailers and see the photos, posters, cast and plot summary below. The film dramatizes the fallout from the notorious 1993 West Memphis murders, focusing on the grieving mother (Witherspoon) of one of the murdered boys and the professional investigator (Firth) who volunteered to represent the accused.

Release Date: May 9, 2014 (U.S. theaters, VOD)
Release Date: January 24, 2014 (Canada)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Adaptation
Director: Atom Egoyan
Screenwriter: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Dane DeHaan, Mireille Enos, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Stephen Moyer, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Ryan
Running Time: 1 hr. 54 min.
MPAA Rating: Not yet rated

Plot Summary

In 1993, West Memphis, Arkansas was rocked by the brutal murders of three 8-year old boys playing in the woods. The police quickly accused three teenage boys, claiming they killed the children as part of a satanic ritual. Professional investigator, Ron Lax (Colin Firth), volunteered to represent the accused and was shocked to find that the case was based entirely on circumstantial evidence, prejudiced assumptions of the teenagers' love of goth culture and heavy metal music. He watched in horror as his clients were put on death row as he discovered something far more scary…the truth.