''Amanda Knox'' is a 2016 American

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about

Amanda Knox Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American author, activist, and journalist. She spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a fellow exchange student with ...

, twice convicted and later acquitted of the 2007

murder of Meredith Kercher Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the ...

. It premiered at the

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on September 10, 2016, and on

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on September 30, 2016.

Synopsis

Featuring interviews with Amanda Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Italian prosecutor

Giuliano Mignini Giuliano Mignini (born April 13, 1950)Burleigh 2011, pp. 153–154. is an Italian magistrate. He retired as a public prosecutor in Perugia, Umbria, in 2020. He is known for his involvement as the prosecutor in the investigation of the death o ...

, and Daily Mail reporter Nick Pisa, the documentary chronicles the murder of Knox's roommate Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation, trials and appeals. Her notoriety bolstered by

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, Knox was convicted of murder and spent four years in an Italian prison before her acquittal by the

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. "I think I'm trying to explain what it feels like to be

wrongfully convicted A miscarriage of justice occurs when a grossly unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. Miscarriages are also known as wrongful convictions. Inno ...

," Knox explained in an interview. "To either be this terrible monster or to be this regular person who is vulnerable."

Reception

, this film has an approval rating of 84% on

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, based on 43 reviews with an average score of 7.2/10. On

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, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The film was nominated for the

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s for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming.

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