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Feb 2, 2000 · In the Name of the People: Directed by Peter Levin. With Amy Madigan, Richard Thomas, Scott Bakula, Kimberley Warnat. Scott Bakula plays John Burke, a man on death row for the murder of a teenaged girl. As the father of a 13 year-old, he worries what will happen to his daughter after his execution.
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- Drama
- Peter Levin
- 2000-02-02
96 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. In the Name of the People is an American television movie drama. It was released in 2000 by CBS Productions and Jaffe/Braunstein Films. The movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was based on the play by Tim Boland.
- Lisa Richardson
- Mark Snow
TCM Emails. Television movie about a death-row inmate who asks the parents of the girl he murdered to raise his daughter after his execution. Jack and Connie Murphy have been waiting for the execution of the murderer of their daughter, Jenny, who was killed six years earlier. Jenny's killer, John Burke, is...
- Peter Levin
- Suleka Mathew
Feb 2, 2000 · TV. Reviews. Feb 1, 2000 11:00pm PT. In the Name of the People. A plea for clemency is taken to the extreme in CBS' "In the Name of the People." With the tearjerk lever greased up, this Eye...
Peter Levin. Synopsis. Scott Bakula plays John Burke, a man on death row for the murder of a teenaged girl. As the father of a 13 year-old, he worries what will happen to his daughter after his...
Summaries. Scott Bakula plays John Burke, a man on death row for the murder of a teenaged girl. As the father of a 13 year-old, he worries what will happen to his daughter after his execution. Richard Thomas and Amy Madigan play the parents of the murdered girl. Madigan is part of an activist group campaigning for the execution of Burke.
The idea of In the Name of the People is good, a murderer doesn't want his only daughter to end up in an institution and asks the parents of the girl he killed to take care of his daughter. And you could expect of the actors, especially Scott Bakula to do some good acting, unfortunately they don't!