# The Thin Blue Line (1988)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Crime, Documentary
**Directed by**: Errol Morris
**Written by**: Errol Morris
**Starring**: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton, Dale Holt

> *Erases the border between art and activism.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You work late in a Dallas police precinct when the call comes in a fellow officer is down and then a confession surfaces that doesn’t quite add up. Morris turns the evidence into a procedural ghost story where every image feels found yet framed. The reenactments don’t solve the case they expose how stories are made to fit before the trial even begins.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, paranoid, slow-burn

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