It's Chicago and the year is 1924. Two young, wealthy law students are driving recklessly at night, and almost hit a drunken pedestrian. The flamboyant Artie Straus (Dillman) is constantly goading the intensely introverted Judd Steiner (Stockwell) to still more outrageous escapades. Smugly feeling safe in their own superiority, the pair commit murder - just to show they can. So starts this gripping fictionalized version of the Leopold-Loeb case which shocked Americans and provoked Clarence Darrow, here fictionalized as Jonathan Wilk (Welles), to make an impassioned plea that even these cold killers should not be hung.

Tells the true story of the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case in Chicago in which two teenagers set out the commit the perfect crime, but stand trial for murder with Clarence Darrow as their defender.

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	MPAA Rating Not Rated Release Date 05/23/2006 Running Time 1 hour 43 minutes Genre Drama Video Format Full Screen 1.33 Media Format DVD Title Compulsion Number of Discs 1 Language ENGLISH UPC 00024543238515