Winter of Frozen Dreams

(USA, 2008, 92 mins)

digital video

World Premiere

writer: Michael Caughill, Michael Graf, John Besmer, Eric Mandelbaum
based on the book by: Karl Harter
director of photography: Brian O'Carroll
editor: Egon Kirincic
sound design: John D'Aquino
music: Kenneth Lampl
production design: Mary Frederickson
costume design: Lisa Padovani
executive producer: Omar Peraza
producer: Milka Stanisic, Anthony J. Vorhies, Millie Stanisic
cast: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters, Dan Moran

• IMDB Film Info
• Trailer

A movie based on a novel based on a true crime tale, which happened right here in Madison. On a frigid Christmas morning in 1977, Barbara Hoffman's distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies, led police investigators to a corpse, which only hours before he had buried in a snow bank. Detective Lulling (Keith Carradine) and the police investigators uncover the naked and brutally bludgeoned body of Harry Berge. Turns out that Harry was a customer of Barbara’s at the massage parlor where she worked, and that Barbara (Thora Birch) was leading a double life. As investigators get closer to solving the crime, Jerry Davies is found dead, but it is murder or suicide? In 1980, young Jim Doyle (now governor) prosecuted Hoffman in the first televised trial in U.S. history. Ten years after that, Karl Harter, the owner of Movin’ Shoes on Park Street, wrote the novel that this film is based on. (Although some of the names are familiar, the film was actually shot in Schenectady, so don’t be surprised if Madison circa 1977 looks a little different than you remember).

Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend.

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