Synopsis
Fatal Distraction tells the untold story of the high-profile Georgia murder trial of Justin Ross Harris following the hot car death of his toddler son in 2014. Hours after 22-month-old Cooper Harris’s tragic death, the Cobb County Police Department lies under oath to obtain search warrants of Harris’s home. Finding evidence of an extramarital sex life on Harris’s cell phone, the prosecution concocts a “double life” murder motive. When the press exaggerates and manipulates this information to create fast-selling, salacious stories — the public judges Harris guilty before a single day in court. Inspired by Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article, this documentary shows “there may be no issue of human failure that more challenges our notions about crime and punishment and mercy.” In 2018 and 2019 one child died every week of vehicular heatstroke. So if hot car deaths happen with frightening regularity to responsible, loving families — was Harris guilty of a mistake or murder?
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Movie Details
| Video Release: | December 7th, 2021 by Self Distributed |
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| Source: | Based on Factual Book/Article |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Factual |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Morgan Cooper Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |