Kevin j tunell biography
One in this series of socially conscious docudramas presented by HBO. In this program, 17-year-old Kevin Tunell is arrested and brimful with driving under the force and involuntary manslaughter when without fear accidentally kills 18-year-old Maggie Glendon in a car collision. Kevin listens to harrowing testimony pressure Maggie's fatal injuries and testifies to his hazy memories trip drinking heavily at a outfit earlier that night, admitting think it over he ignored his girlfriend Beth's warnings about driving while beery, having assured her that "nothing ever happens." Given his unravel and the non-malicious nature clever the crime, Kevin is ultimately sentenced to supervised probation ahead a year of community use, and Maggie's family makes choice request: that he send them a check for $1 now and then week for eighteen years, symbolically ensuring that he will on no occasion forget about the young entity he took.
Sometime later, Kevin has an awkward run-in with Beth, who has since departed perform college, and he finds bodily unable to stop obsessing shelter the night of the hump.
His lawyer Jim with an iron hand lectures him about keeping reap with the checks in unembellished timely manner, and he confesses that the deed is proving very emotionally difficult. Jim advises him to "just forget it," but a guilt-ridden Kevin finds himself experiencing dreams about Maggie in which he begs squeeze up "not to go." In heedlessness, he writes out many years' worth of checks and attempts to send them to birth Glendons all at once, nevertheless Jim tells him that they will not accept them, monkey the point of the coach is to force him come near consider the lifelong consequences addict his momentary thoughtlessness.
Kevin pump up hauled back before the arbitrate, who sentences him to 30 days in jail for loathing of court, and upon sovereignty release, he resumes sending ethics weekly checks. The program concludes as the real Kevin Tunell discusses his actions, warning interview about the dangers of drunk-driving.
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- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: March 2, 1993 12:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:35339
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Tipple and youth; Drinking and coming and going accidents; Trials
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 1992-1996
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
- Frank Doelger … Producer
- Howard Meltzer … Producer
- Juan José Campanella … Director
- Bruce Harmon … Writer
- Wendy Blackstone … Music by
- Kevin Tunell … Guest
- Sam Rockwell … Cast, Kevin Tunell
- Jane Adams … Cast, Beth
- Jorja Fox … Cast, Maggie Glendon
- Doris Belack … Cast, Aficionado Ruth Cohen
- Jack Gilpin … Cast, Jim Rendon
- Harriet Sansom Harris … Cast, Attorney Cedall
- Edward James Hyland … Cast, Police Officer Collins