Film director and social activist Micki Dickoff (Veronica Hamel) abandons her career to come to the aid of childhood friend Sonia (Sunny) Jacobs (Mimi Rogers) , who's been in prison, for murder, for 15 years. Telepic was produced and directed by that very same Micki Dickoff.

Film director and social activist Micki Dickoff (Veronica Hamel) abandons her career to come to the aid of childhood friend Sonia (Sunny) Jacobs (Mimi Rogers) , who’s been in prison, for murder, for 15 years. Telepic was produced and directed by that very same Micki Dickoff. Script by Rama Laurie Stagner and Dan Witt — based, we’re told, on “court transcripts, published accounts and interviews”– does neither woman any favors.

Jacobs, it turns out, was living with a parolee (also charged with the murder), in the car with him and a ne’er-do-well friend (Keith Brunsmann) and lied at the time of her arrest; in short, there’s no particular reason to believe her or her boyfriend (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).

Dickoff, who’s generally a pain in the rear, reconciles Jacobs with her long-estranged daughter (Denise Richards) and tracks down a witness (Lilliana Cabal) who lied at the original trial and has disappeared into the bowels of Wyoming. One wonders how anything gets done without her.

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When Dickoff figures out a possible scenario for the murder that evidently hasn’t occurred to anybody else and then illustrates it with nifty little models , all the attorney can do is observe, erroneously, “If you’re right, it proves that Sunny was innocent.”

Prosecuting attorney (Brian Markinson) is as cardboard as the principals, and Polly Bergen and Piper Laurie appear briefly as mothers of the Dickoff and Morgan characters, respectively. Mary Mara plays Dickoff’s lawyer friend, who describes her as a “humanitarian, politically correct freedom-fighter” and pooh-poohs the attempt to aid a childhood friend.

Film takes place in New York, North Carolina, Wyoming … everywhere except Salt Lake City, where it was shot. While competently enough done, pic shows little flair or excitement; it’s hard to get charged up about any of these people.

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In the Blink of an Eye

Sun. (24), 9-11 p.m., ABC

  • Production: Filmed in Salt Lake City by Grossbart/Barnett/Iezman Prods. Executive producers, Joan Barnett, Jack Grossbart; producer, director, Micki Dickoff; script, Rama Laurie Stagner, Dan Witt.
  • Crew: Camera, Joao Fernandes; editor, Bill Blunden; production designer, Alfred Sole; sound, Les Udy; music, James McVay; casting, Shana Landsburg, Cate Praggastis, (extras) Chris Hanson.
  • Cast: Cast: Veronica Hamel, Mimi Rogers, Carlos Gomez, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Brian Markinson, Mary Mara, Judith-Marie Bergan, Denise Richards, Keith Brunsmann, T.J. Lowther, Daniel DiLiberto, Polly Bergen, Paul Abbott, Geoffrey Bennett, J. Scott Bronson, Anika Burt, Lilliana Cabal, Robert Conder, Joyce Cohen, Thom Dillon, Scott Ditty, Charles Dougherty, Burt Edwards, Michael Flynn, Rita Bankhead-Grayson, Star Herrmann, David Jensen, Haley McCormick, Micaela T. Nelligan, Jeff Olson, Kevin Rahm, Don Re Sampson, Randi Lynn Strong, Scott Stevenson, George Sullivan, Ted Sutton, Margo Watson, Diana Williams, M. Scott Wilkinson.

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