Delivered helpless

Movie
German title	Delivered helpless
Original title	Murder or Memory ?: A Moment of Truth Movie
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1994
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Christopher Leitch
script	Anthony Adams Christina Adams
production	John N. Whittle , Anthony Adams, Christina Adams
music	James McVay
camera	Robert Primes
cut	Ron Spang
occupation
Leigh Taylor-Young : Barbara Hansen Michael Brandon : Arnie Hansen Karl David-Djerf : Christopher Hansen Karen Austin : Connie Frawley Conor O'Farrell : Det. John Avery Stephen Burleigh : Sam Frawley Rebecca Budig : Kathy Hansen Melinda Culea : Prosecutor Coil Stephen Keep Mills : Judge Baldwin

Delivered helplessly (Original title: Murder or Memory ?: A Moment of Truth Movie ) is a drama from 1994 by Christopher Leitch, with Leigh Taylor-Young , Michael Brandon and Karl David-Djerf in the leading roles.

The film is based on a true story about the subject of confession under hypnosis and explains why it is forbidden.

action

The Hansens and the Frawleys have long been friends. Chris Hansen is 14 and the beautiful Sally Frawley is his crush. But at a party it becomes clear that she doesn't want anything to do with him. The next morning she is found murdered and battered in the garden. The police suspect Chris, who was found terrified near the body. But he can't remember anything.

After a very tough, eleven-hour interrogation without the presence of his parents, who are too shocked and preoccupied by the events to really notice that he is being interrogated, Chris finally confesses to the fact in the presence of a psychologist who questions him accordingly during a subsequent relaxation method, asking suggestive questions leading to the assumption that he had committed the crime. Chris is arrested and the trial against him is prepared. He should end up before an adult court.

Over time, however, his mother Barbara discovers that the confession contradicts the facts and develops the theory that Chris was forced to testify using hypnosis . She then hires an expensive lawyer and begins to prosecute the police and the public prosecutor's office . It turns out that the interrogation implanted the memory into Chris, since under such circumstances this relaxation method is hypnosis and the leading questions for Chris thus became suggestive answers. It is also made clear that the memory Chris should have of the actual events was irrevocably obliterated by the implanted suggestions at the same time.

The confession is therefore not allowed by the competent judge in his judgment and Chris does not come to court. Since the police arrogantly destroyed the evidence on the scene after the confession, the real killer is never found. The event also destroys the relationship between the Hansens and the Frawleys and later has legal ramifications in the United States , as because of these events the prohibition of confessions under hypnosis was tightened to prevent this from happening again.

criticism

"Crude story, still interesting"

- TV movie

Web links

• Helpless in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Delivered helplessly in the online film database
• Helpless at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helplessly delivered TV feature film . Retrieved March 21, 2018.