“Roll Red Roll” is a piercingly relevant and disturbing documentary about an infamous high school rape case that took place in Steubenville, Ohio, on Aug. 11, 2012. Steubenville, the sort of Friday-night-lights small town that boasts signs that read “Kick off for Jesus,” is a place that’s good at keeping secrets. When the rape was first reported in a local newspaper, there was an attempt on the part of much of the community to deny the crime by simply waving it away. It was seen as the stars of the local football team, known as the Big Red, getting a little too wild in a boys-will-be-boys way. The coach didn’t even suspend his players for drinking (a rule he was generally strict about), because he didn’t want to get them in trouble.
But there are times you need an instigator to stir up a hornets’ nest, and one of...
But there are times you need an instigator to stir up a hornets’ nest, and one of...
- 3/22/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Roll Red Roll Together Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Nancy Schwartzman Cast: Alexandria Goddard, J.P. Rigaud, Rachel Bissel , Scott Pelley, Chris Cuomo Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/26/19 Opens: March 22, 2019 The average person watching this documentary—which unfolds like a real crime thriller—might think that the case became […]
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- 3/17/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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