The Thin Pink Line

The Thin Pink Line is a 1998 film directed by Joe Dietl and Michael Irpino. A small film crew choose as the subject of their next documentary a death row inmate who insists he is innocent of murder. Subtitled The Making of the Making of a Documentary, this film is meant to be the product of another documentary film crew that has been documenting the crew's efforts to interview the inmate's friends and family. The inmate himself is flamboyantly gay, and much of the content of the film centres on a variety of jokes at the expense of homosexuals. The title is a parody of Errol Morris'... documentary The Thin Blue Line, which raised questions about the conviction of a prison inmate on death row.
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