Cruel Doubt

Cruel Doubt
Based onCruel Doubt
by Joe McGinniss
Screenplay byJohn Gay
Story byJoe McGinniss
Directed byYves Simoneau
StarringBlythe Danner
Matt McGrath
Ed Asner
Adam Baldwin
Gwyneth Paltrow
Theme music composerGeorge S. Clinton
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerSusan Baerwald
CinematographyElliot Davis
EditorsRick Fields
Michael Ornstein
Running time187 min.
Production companiesSusan Baerwald Productions
NBC Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseMay 17 (1992-05-17) –
May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)
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Cruel Doubt is a 1992 miniseries starring Blythe Danner and Matt McGrath, as well as Danner's daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow. The film was broadcast in two parts on NBC in the United States and on CTV in Canada on May 17 and May 19, 1992.

Ed Asner, Adam Baldwin and Dennis Farina also star.

The miniseries is based on the 1991 true crime book Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss, which documents the 1988 murder of Lieth Von Stein by his stepson, Chris Pritchard, and two friends, James Upchurch and Gerald Neal Henderson.