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What Jennifer Did
2024 · Documentary · Crime
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A true story based on interview transcripts and records
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.
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CinemaSerf
February 14, 2026
There are two really impressive and emotionally-charged performances from Ely Solan and Leon Hughes here but the rest of the feature seems uncomfortably prurient. It was huge news in the UK in 1993 when toddler James Bulger was abducted and murdered by two older children, so this dramatisation is bound to touch nerves as it uses selected transcripts from their police interviews to map out just what happened on that d…
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