Colin Firth Plays a Grieving Father in Somber Docudrama ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic Toward the end of “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,” Jim Swire (Colin Firth) meets a woman who asks about the pin on his lapel.
When he explains it’s to honor the victims of the infamous bombing, her face draws a blank. More than 20 years earlier, Jim lost his daughter in the 1988 attack, which brought down a commercial airliner over the small town in Scotland.
As the crash’s memory has started to fade in the public consciousness, Jim — a real-life physician, to whom the series is dedicated — has waged a long and lonely crusade to uncover the truth of how hundreds of people lost their lives.
That effort is still ongoing; the trial of alleged co-conspirator Abu Agila Masud will begin next year, following his indictment in 2020.
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