
            Based on a true story that took place in Bakersfield, California. In 1982, Scott and Brenda Kniffen are approached by their friends, Alvin and Debbie McCuan. Debbie's stepmother, Mary Ann Barbour, is trying to get custody of their little girls, despite the fact that she is mentally ill. Mary Ann claims that Alvin and Debbie molested their children. The McCuans ask the Kniffens to testify on their behalf. They feel very sorry for their friends and agree to help in whatever way they can.Mary Ann notifies Child Protective Services that not only the McCuans, but the Kniffens are running a child sex ring involving multiple molestation. She claims that the McCuan girls told her about children being hung from hooks in the Kniffen home and tortured. Her story is so wild that the social worker is a bit skeptical, but her supervisor insists that it has to be true because children don't lie. Warrants are obtained for the arrest of the McCuans and Kniffens.Brenda is at home with her sons, Brian (age 6) and Brandon (age 9) when police arrive to arrest her. The boys are taken into protective custody and the house is torn apart looking for pornographic pictures and evidence of child molestation. Scott is arrested at his workplace. He and Brenda cannot make any sense of what has happened. They insist they are innocent but no one believes them. Brenda is severely beaten while in jail. Scott's parents, Marilyn and Dick Kniffen post bail but the boys remain in protective custody. Their parents are allowed no contact with them. The grandmothers, Marilyn and Brenda's mother Corene, are allowed a supervised visit. But Corene violates the court order not to question the boys and is arrested, charged with witness tampering. The charge is later dropped but the grandmothers are allowed no further visits.The case of the Kniffens and McCuans blows wide open, with extensive news coverage, and all are accused of multiple counts. Brandon and Brian are repeatedly questioned and at first deny any abuse. But they want to go home so badly that they start agreeing with what investigators say, thinking that will help. Instead it strengthens the case against their parents, who are already seen as guilty. Two years later, both couples are found guilty and sentenced to a total of 1000 years in prison.Brenda and Scott are sent to separate prisons. Scott's parents try to get custody of the boys, but are denied because D.A. Gindes feels they will brainwash the boys and cause them to recant. The boys spend their childhoods in many different foster homes. All appeals fail and it looks as if Scott and Brenda will remain in prison for the rest of their lives.Dick and Marilyn hired a private investigator, Denver Dunn, who is a retired police detective. He promises to look into the case but warns them it could take years. Over time, Scott and Brenda adjust to life in prison. Scott is in isolation for his own safety, but Brenda must deal with ill treatment because she is supposedly a child molester.As the years pass and her children are nearly grown, Brenda repeatedly begs the prison psychiatrist to allow them to visit her. But he refuses because she is in denial. If she will admit to even one small act of molestation, he will permit a visit. Brenda finds this ironic but won't consider admitting to something she has not done.Dunn obtains a cassette tape from an anonymous source, left from the boys' questioning sessions. All the other tapes have mysteriously disappeared. It contains evidence that the boys were coerced into saying they were molested. He tapes the tape to Andrew Snedeker and his wife; lawyers who are known for helping those falsely accused of molestation. They agree to take the case and try to get a new trial.At last the Kniffen grandparents get custody of Brian. Brandon, now a legal adult, joins the Marines. Brian recants his testimony and signs a statement, but Brandon refuses to do so. He believes the abuse took place but he can't remember it. And if it did not take place, he can't live with the guilt of what happened to his parents.The case has taken a very heavy toll on the elder Kniffens. Marilyn suddenly dies. Brandon gets leave for the funeral and is shocked to learn that his grandfather died the previous evening, in his sleep. Brian tells him he has to recant his testimony and try to get their parents out of prison. At last, urged on by Dunn, Brandon agrees.The Kniffens are granted a hearing, seeing each other and their sons for the first time since the trial. Both boys retract their testimony and Snedeker introduces the tape. The case is overturned and the Kniffens are free. They leave Bakersfield to make a new life elsewhere.
    

Just Ask My Children

Sword of Gideon


            
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Miracle at Moreaux

Pharaoh's Army

Gregory K

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace


            High school quarterback Woody Deane (Kevin Zegers of Transamerica) and Nell Bedworth (Samaira Armstrong of The O.C. and Entourage) are life long sworn enemies who wake up one day to find themselves in a very strange place: each other's bodies. Even if they can now survive their switched lives of girls' showers, boys' locker rooms, college interviews, the Homecoming football game and destroying each other's reputations, will they find that falling in love may be the ultimate out-of-body experience? Sharon Osbourne co-stars in this wild gender-bender comedy featuring a hot soundtrack of hits by Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Elton John, James Blunt, Ozzy Osbourne, Girls Aloud, Mystikal and more! [D-Man2010]
    

It's a Boy Girl Thing

Crown and Anchor

Big Shots

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong


            After exposing a pair of con artists with his partner Melanie (Candy Clark) in the infamous 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville, Long Island, New York, recently divorced Reveal magazine employee John Baxter (Tony Roberts) purchases the haunted house after being persuaded to by real estate agent Clifford Sanders (John Harkins). While preparing the house for John, Clifford goes into it alone and, hearing footsteps in the attic, goes upstairs to investigate and is locked in the room, where he is swarmed by flies and is found dead of a presumed heart attack or stroke by John. Thinking nothing of Clifford's death, even after Melanie shows him some photos she took of the real estate agent before his death which depict him as a rotting corpse, John moves into the house and lives there, adamant that the house is normal and telling Melanie to later meet him there.While John works (and experiences elevator trouble presumably caused by the house from afar) Melanie goes to the house and makes her way inside, eventually finding the maid and is spooked; the maid leaves shortly afterward. Left alone, Melanie goes down into the basement to check the fuse box when she feels a strange breeze; frightened, she heads back upstairs when the door to the basement flies open on its own and blasts her with an Arctic gale. She is found later that night by John, cowering and hysterical against the wall.Her attempts to convince John that something is inside the house falls on deaf ears. Later, while looking over blowups of the photos of Clifford, Melanie discovers a demonic-looking face in the pictures and rushes to reach John, but crashes her car and dies when the photographs burst into flames and burn her to a charred skeleton, the car going up in flames shortly afterward. Melanie's death is ruled accidental by everyone, including John, who remains oblivious to the evil in his home.While John is away one day his daughter Susan (Lori Loughlin) and her friend Lisa (Meg Ryan) (who is obsessed with the history of the house, claiming it was built on an Indian burial ground) take some boys to the house and use a Ouija board in the attic, but stop the game when the board tells them Susan is in danger before the glass they were using smashes itself against the wall. Susan's friends assume she was playing a prank. Growing bored, Susan and the others go out in John's motorboat while Susan's mother Nancy (Tess Harper) searches the house for her daughter, who walks in the door drenched moments later. After Nancy calls out at her, Susan turns and smiles at her, then ignores Nancy and makes her way upstairs, locking herself in her room. Outside John arrives with groceries and, seeing a commotion on the docks, goes to see what is wrong and finds Susan's lifeless body being tended to, her friends telling him she fell out of the boat.When Nancy arrives at the scene John tells her what happened, causing Nancy to go into hysterics and tell him she saw Susan in the house moments ago before rushing back inside, convinced Susan is either still there or will be shortly, refusing to leave, even for Susan's funeral.After having nightmares about the old well in the basement (a supposed gateway to Hell) John, unable to deal with Nancy's delusions that Susan is still alive, consults his friend Doctor Elliot West (Robert Joy) about what he should do. West suggests that John allow him and a team of paranormal investigators to set up in the house, to help prove if Nancy actually saw something or not, which John agrees to.As Elliot, John and the team wait, Nancy sits by Susan's bed and is soon confronted by a spectral being speaking in Susan's voice, which goads her into following it into the basement, where the old well has filled with liquid. Following Nancy and the being, John and Elliot begin trying to goad whatever is in the well to reveal itself and let Susan (who they believe can come back) go. While near the well Elliot is burned and dragged into the depths by a demon and Susan's specter disappears as John and Nancy flee upstairs, telling Elliot's team to run. As the house quakes and starts coming apart, freezing on the inside, most of Elliot's team is killed by flying and exploding objects while John and Nancy and several others escape out a window just before the house blows up.While the remaining paranormal investigators flee, John and Nancy watch as the rubble of the house burns to the ground and the old well bubbles ominously. A fly is later seen emerging from it and disappears.
    

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