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-{{Template:Movies |
+{{Template:Movies
-image = in-the-blink-of-an-eye.jpg |
+| image = in-the-blink-of-an-eye.jpg
-caption = In the Blink of an Eye (1996) |
+| caption = In the Blink of an Eye (1996)
-where =
+| where = * [https://amzn.to/2oySgb8 Amazon]
-* [https://amzn.to/2oySgb8 Amazon]
+| about = Based on a true story, ''In the Blink of an Eye'' follows filmmaker and activist Micki Dickoff (Veronica Hamel) as she puts her career on hold to fight for the release of her childhood friend Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs (Mimi Rogers), who has spent more than a decade on death row for a crime she insists she did not commit.
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-about = Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder. |
+In 1976, Sonia, her partner Jesse Tafero and a friend named Walter Rhodes were approached by two Florida Highway Patrol officers at a rest stop off Interstate 95 in Broward County. Gunfire broke out, both officers were killed, and the group fled in the troopers' patrol car. Sonia and Jesse were tried separately, convicted and sentenced to death largely on the testimony of Rhodes, who accepted a plea deal and a life sentence. Jesse was later executed in a notoriously botched electrocution while Sonia remained on death row, protesting her innocence.
 tagline = In A Single Moment Her Life Changed Forever. |
-director = [[Micki Dickoff]] |
+Decades after losing touch, Micki reconnects with Sonia and becomes convinced the convictions are unsafe. She hires attorney Jose Quinon (Carlos Gómez), digs into Rhodes's shifting story and the perjured testimony of a jailhouse informant, and pushes the case back in front of a federal court. Told through Sonia's prison correspondence and Micki's dogged reinvestigation, the film builds to the plea deal that finally secured Sonia's freedom after 17 years in prison.
-producer = [[Micki Dickoff]] |
+| tagline = In A Single Moment Her Life Changed Forever.
-writer = [[Rama Laurie Stagner]], [[Dan Witt]] |
+| director = [[Micki Dickoff]]
-cert = PG-13 |
+| producer = [[Micki Dickoff]]
-time = 90min |
+| writer = [[Rama Laurie Stagner]], [[Dan Witt]]
-budget = $2 million |
+| genre = Biography, Crime, Drama
-boxoffice = $5 million |
+| cert = PG-13
-released = March 24, 1996 |
+| time = 90min
-cast =
+| budget = $2 million
-* [[Veronica Hamel]] as Micki Dickoff
+| boxoffice = $5 million
 * [[Mimi Rogers]] as Sonia Jacobs
 * [[Carlos Gómez]] as Jose Quinon
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 * [[Paul Abbott]] as Jeremy
 * [[Geoffrey Bennett]] as Reporter
 | related = * [[Jam (2006)]]
 * [[Road Kill (1999)]]
 * [[Pier 66 (1996)]]
 * [[Uncaged (1991)]]
 * [[Little Girl Lost (1988)]]
+| trivia = * Based on the true story of Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs, who was released from a Florida prison in 1992 after 17 years, 5 of them on death row.
-links =
+* The film was directed by the real Micki Dickoff, the activist whose investigation helped secure Jacobs's release.
-* [https://amzn.to/2oySgb8 Amazon]
+* Originally aired on ABC as a made-for-television movie on March 24, 1996.
 }}

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 about = Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder. |
 director = [[Micki Dickoff]] |
 writer = [[Rama Laurie Stagner]], [[Dan Witt]] |
 time = 90min |
 cast =
 * [[Veronica Hamel]] as Micki Dickoff

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 image = in-the-blink-of-an-eye.jpg |
 caption = In the Blink of an Eye (1996) |
 about = Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder. |
 director = [[Micki Dickoff]] |
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 * [[Jam (2006)]]
 * [[Road Kill (1999)]]
 * [[Uncaged (1991)]]
 * [[Little Girl Lost (1988)]]

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 * [[Polly Bergen]] as Murial
 * [[Paul Abbott]] as Jeremy
+|
 related =

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 * [[Uncaged (1991)]]
 * [[Little Girl Lost (1988)]]
 }}

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 * [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] as Jessie
 * [[Brian Markinson]] as Satz
-* [[Mary Mara]]
+* [[Mary Mara]] as Chrisite
 * [[Judith-Marie Bergan]]
 * [[Denise Richards]] as Tina Jacobs
-* [[Keith Brunsmann]]
+* [[Keith Brunsmann]] as Walter Rhodes
-* [[T.J. Lowther]]
+* [[T.J. Lowther]] as Young Eric
 * [[Dan Diliberto]]
+|
 related =