The lives of the participants in a trial with significant racial motives are forever changed during the legal process.

Tim Hutton does an amazing job in the role of the deadbeat dad. After the first couple of episodes it dawned on me that this was an ABC production and what a miracle it was that it ever saw the light of day at all. It's an important show, particularly in these days of ISIL and Ferguson, and it treats these explosive topics with intelligence and, for the most part, a fair hand. My only criticism with the show is the overuse of the opposing shoulder shot. Two out of three scenes are shot from the point of view of the person being talked to, over the shoulder. At first it was interesting, although Alfred Hitchcock made a career out of such shots in another generation. In American Crime it's done to death. Also irritating are the time jumps, back, forth, back, forth. An hour of it is like watching an hour of Riverdance. But the content and the acting saves it a thousand times over,

Duration: 3 Discs HD DVD-9 Plastic Bag Packing Ver. ( 11 Episodes Complete Series )