“Stillwater” director Tom McCarthy is responding to Amanda Knox’s recent criticism of the film, which she says appears to be “loosely based” on her life.
Knox, who was convicted and then eventually acquitted of the murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, commented on the fact that people “continue to profit” off her “name, face and story” without her consent.
A synopsis for the movie, starring Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin, reads: “An American oil-rig roughneck travels to Marseille, France, to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit.
Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences and a complicated legal system, he soon builds a new life for himself as he makes it his
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