Trial by Fire (2019)

This is another film that highlights the injustice of the American justice system, putting an innocent man to death.
Cameron Todd Willingham (Jack O'Connell) is found guilty of murder, arson which caused his three young daughters to burn to death. Due to some commending witnesses and a public defender who failed to cross examine anyone or bring any witnesses in defense, Todd is found on death row, where slowly educates himself and somehow almost befriends his guard, Daniels (Chris Coy), and through some rather bizarre events, a playwright, Elizabeth Gilbert (Laura Dern) starts writing him letters and fights to exonerate him, and the evidence does come to light, his former cellmate has a change of heart, but his ex-wife, Stacy (Emily Meade), who is at first the only person to defend him, refuses to do so when it actually matters.
While this film has been done before (see: Brian Banks), it still needs to be made as the system is broken and needs to be fixed, when new evidence comes to light, it needs to be given the credit it deserves and everyone deserves a fair trial, even those who have a prior record and you should never assume that someone is guilty before reviewing all the evidence.
Though the material has been done before, the performances are solid, with everyone acting as those their lives depend on it, from the cameos of the others being hauled away to die to Elizabeth's children and Todd's fellow inmate (McKinley Belcher II) and the fellow guards, but O'Connell's performance is the strongest and without it, the film would fail. Grade: A-
Side Notes:
-Todd's fellow inmate is killed for killing another man while trying to rob a bank and was high. I thought that was only second-degree murder, but I'm not a lawyer so what do I know?
-Though Todd was far from an upstanding citizen, you don't get why everyone automatically assumed he killed his daughters?
-Though he moved his car, he did try to get back into his house to save them, though they were already long dead.
-It appeared that Stacy's grandmother had some money, why was none of it given to Stacy to help out with the kids?
-I do wish they hadn't shown Todd's death.
-Elizabeth is in a bad car accident which is why she can't say good-bye to Todd. I wonder who was at fault for that accident?