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  • Director: Robert Markowitz
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Crime Drama, Docudrama
  • Themes: Kids in Trouble, Death Row
  • Main Cast: Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker
  • Release Year: 1990
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

Another "based on fact" TV movie, Too Young to Die? stars Juliette Lewis as a benighted teenaged girl. She is married at 14, is deserted, and begins walking the streets at 15. Abused by virtually every man with whom she comes in contact (including her own father), Lewis commits murder--and finds herself on Death Row before reaching her 16th birthday. Michael Tucker is the attorney who pleads that his client not be tried as an adult. Despite all the horrendous wrongs piled upon Juliette Lewis in Too Young to Die?, her character fails to elicit audience sympathy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Mark Davenport - Mickey; Tim de Zarn - Patron; Tom Everett; Taylor Fry - Sally; Alan Fudge - Mark Calhoun; Redmond Gleeson - Janitor; Yvette Heyden; Lew Hopson - Star; Juliette Lewis - Amanda Sue Bradley; Emily Longstreth - Jean; Laurie O'brien - Wanda Sledge; Michael O'Keefe - Mike Medwicki; Bradley Michael Pierce - Web; Brad Pitt - Billy Canton; Charles David Richards - Billings; Michael Tucker - Buddy Thornton; Annabelle Weenick - Birdie Jewel; Hank Woessner - Boss; Don Pugsley - Booking Officer; J. Stephen Brady - Brian; Dean Abston - Harvey; C.W. Hemingway - Gas Station Attendant; Charles C. Stevenson, Jr. - Pastor

Credit

Fern Orenstein - Casting, Paul Alan Mones - Co-producer, Timothy McFlynn - Co-producer, Shari Feldman - Costume Designer, Robert Markowitz - Director, Harvey Rosenstock - Editor, Eric Sears - Editor, Robert Sertner - Executive Producer, Frank Von Zerneck - Executive Producer, Charles Bernstein - Composer (Music Score), Donald Light-Harris - Production Designer, Eric Van Haren Noman - Cinematographer, Susan Weber-Gold - Producer, Julie Anne Weitz - Producer, Jacob Goldstein - Sound/Sound Designer, Dave Hill - Screen Story, Dave Hill - Screenwriter, George Rubino - Screenwriter

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Too Young to Die?
Directed by Robert Markowitz
Produced by Susan Weber-Gold
Julie Anne Weitz
Written by David Hill
George Rubino
Starring Michael Tucker,
Juliette Lewis,
Brad Pitt,
Alan Fudge
Music by Charles Bernstein
Release date(s) 26 February 1990
Running time 92 min.
Language English

Too Young to Die? is a 1990 television movie starring Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis. It touches on the debate concerning the death penalty. It is based on a true story.

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Basis

The film is loosely based on Attina Marie Cannaday, who along with David Gray and Dawn Bushart, killed Ronald Wojcik, with a knife, in Harrison County, Mississippi on June 3, 1982.

Cannaday (born September 8, 1965) was charged with robbery, kidnapping, and homicide. At the time of her trial, she was a sixteen year old divorcee, who had married at thirteen and divorced at fourteen. She was convicted in Harrison County Circuit Court of the kidnap and murder of U. S. Air Force Sergeant Ronald Wojcik and the jury sentenced her to death by lethal injection. The guilty verdict was upheld, but the sentence was reversed in 1984, Cannaday v. State, 455 So.2d 713, 720 (Miss. 1984), and she is currently serving one life sentence and two 25-year sentences at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (inmate number 42451). She was released on parole on March 9, 2008.

Her co-defendant, David Randolph Gray (born May 29, 1954) was charged with aggravated assault, grand larceny, and homicide. He, too, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. His sentence was reversed in May 1987, by the U. S. Supreme Court, in Gray v. Mississippi, 481 U.S. 648, on the basis "a qualified juror was excluded from his trial". He is currently serving a life sentence in Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (inmate number 01440).[1][2][3][4]

Cast

  • Michael Tucker - as - Buddy Thornton
  • Juliette Lewis - as - Amanda Sue Bradley
  • Brad Pitt - as - Billy Canton
  • Alan Fudge - as - D.A. Mark Calhoun
  • Emily Longstreth - as - Jean
  • Laurie O'Brien- as - Wanda Bradley Sledge
  • Yvette Heyden - as - Mike's New Girl
  • Tom Everett - as - Judge Harper
  • Michael O'Keefe - as - Mike Medwicki
  • Dean Abston- as - Harvey Sledge
  • J. Stephen Brady - as - Brian
  • Mark Davenport - as - Mickey
  • Lew Hopson - as - Star
  • Annabelle Weenick - as - Birdie Jewel
  • Charles C. Stevenson Jr. - as - Pastor

References

  1. ^ Gray v. Mississippi, 481 U.S. 648 (1987). - Oyez Project - November 12, 1986
  2. ^ Transcript: U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument. - Gray v. Mississippi, 481 U.S. 648 (1987). - Oyez Project - November 12, 1986
  3. ^ Gray v. Mississippi, 481 U.S. 648 (1987). - FindLaw: Cases and Codes
  4. ^ Inmate 01440 - Mississippi Department of Corrections

Further reading

  • Kuncl, Tom, and Paul Einstein, (1990). - Ladies Who Kill. - New York, New York: Pinnacle Books. - ISBN 1558172491

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