Just shown on Sundance Channel, this tells the true story of British serial killer Fred West and the court-appointed "appropriate adult" assigned to monitor the questioning he receives from the police.
Set in 1994, the film picks up right after West has been arrested and his interrogation begins.
Dominic West (best known for his Detective McNulty role in The Wire) is electrifying. I don't know if it struck home with me because his and most of the other actors accents are true to the locale - Gloucester, in England, which is 40 miles from and very adjacent to my birth-place and natural accent - or because Fred West and his wife Rose are such notorious figures, having tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. Naturally, this was BIG NEWS in the UK, as the Wests twisted and turned their stories day by day, and week by week, and how news of each new body broke.
The Wests were evil animals. The fact that he confessed more to the appropriate adult than he did to the police makes the telling of this story from that "adult's" perspective all the more compelling.
Chilling stuff, and brilliantly acted.
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