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Original title

Alleged

Year

2010

Running time

93 min.

Country

United States

Director

Tom Hines

Screenwriter

Fred Foote, Brian Godawa. Story: Charlie Jordan Brookins, Leo Severino

Cast

Music

John R. Graham

Cinematography

John Samaras

Producer

Two Shoes Productions

Genre

Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. Journalism. 1920s. Based on a true story

Synopsis

Charles Anderson (Nathan West), a talented young reporter, feels trapped living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN, 1925) in steep decline. Using the Monkey Trial as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles becomes the eager protégé of Baltimore Sun editor H.L Mencken (Colm Meany), America's most colorful and influential columnist. The trial itself lives up to its billing as the "Trial of the Century" when the great Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) defends the theory of evolution against the popular statesman and fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan (Sen. Fred Thompson) who sees the reduction of mankind to mere animal status as both inaccurate and potentially disastrous. Once in the midst of this staged event, Charles is torn between his love for the more principled Rose (Ashley Johnson), his fiancée, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make by the agnostic and acerbic Mencken. When the truth is at stake, Charles discovers, some lies just have to be told.

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Alleged

2010

Tom Hines