Review: There’s a reason “Marlene” is more about the wife of wrongly convicted Steven Truscott than about Truscott himself. It shows how love can conquer anything if it’s strong enough, writes peterhowellfilm
Starring Kristin Booth, Greg Bryk, Julia Sarah Stone, Dempsey Bryk, Ryan Northcott, Maxim Roy, David Trimble, Aidan Fink and Summer McBrien. Written by Wendy Hill-Tout and Cathy Ostlere. Directed by Wendy Hill-Tout. Opens Friday at Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas in Toronto and at the Bookshelf Cinema in Guelph. 100 minutes.The boy-meets-girl part of “Marlene” will sound familiar to fans of romantic movies: he finds her shy but “so beautiful.
“She” is Marlene Truscott , Steven’s wife. Her decades of work to clear her husband’s name is a lesser-known aspect of a case that spawned countless headlines and ultimately led to Steven’s exoneration in 2007, with an Ontario Court of Appeal acquittal, an apology from the province and a compensation package worth more than $6 million.
Two days earlier, she’d gone for a bicycle ride with her classmate Steven Truscott , a gangly young teen with a bashful grin. They’d cycled along rural roads, with Lynne sitting on the handlebars, until they reached a crossroads where Lynne dismounted and began hitchhiking. As Truscott languishes in jail, crusading author Isabel LeBourdais releases “The Trial of Steven Truscott,” a bestselling book damning police and other authorities for sloppy casework and a rush to judgment. Truscott is released on parole in 1969 and begins a new life under an assumed name, eventually marrying and raising three children in Guelph.
Flashbacks reveal how the teenage Marlene became fascinated with the Truscott case after reading the LeBourdais book and then assisted the author in fighting for his freedom. Along the way, Marlene fell in love with Steven and he with her. A lot of information about the Truscott case is compressed within the movie’s 100-minute running time . We get more of Marlene’s side of the story than we do of Steven’s, with the latter depicted as the stoic silent type.
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