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Movie review: In fact-based 'Crown Heights,' loyal friends relentlessly seek justice for an imprisoned man.

An uncaring system putting blameless men behind bars has been a cinematic staple as far back as Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" and likely further. But few examples have been as effective as the fact-based "Crown Heights."

Winner of Sundance's coveted audience award in dramatic competition, "Crown Heights" is adapted from an episode of public radio's "This American Life" and named after the Brooklyn neighborhood where its main characters live and work.

As written and directed by Matt Ruskin, the film is finely balanced between two parallel sets of astonishments. One, that an

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