![]() ![]() Pointedly - even proudly - dark, it focuses on characters for whom the American Dream is a bitter joke. Directed by Ben Stiller - yes, that Ben Stiller - this gritty, superbly acted seven-parter tells the story of a 2015 prison break from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. "Escape At Dannemora" is a new Showtime series steeped in the Hollywood movies of the '70s. In fact, that mistake is the pivot of two wildly different new TV shows, both torn from the headlines. The history of film noir is populated with them, but for deep-seated cultural reasons, we have a special fascination with women who fall for Mr. Of course, men make foolish amorous, choices, too. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: Back in the 1980s, there was a best-selling book called "Smart Women/Foolish Choices," which was all about ruinous romantic decisions. Our critic at large John Powers says these shows plunge viewers into two very different worlds. This Sunday, Bravo will be airing "Dirty John," starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana based on the true story of a con man and the woman who fell in love with him. ![]() The new Showtime series "Escape At Dannemora," which began last Sunday, stars Patricia Arquette, Benicio Del Toro and Paul Dano in the story of a notorious 2015 prison break. ![]() ![]() These are high times for TV shows based on true stories. I don’t have any ill will towards her in particular.This is FRESH AIR. Regardless, Stiller bears no ill will towards Mitchell: “It can’t be fun to be in prison. There are all sorts of things to indicate there was a relationship going on. “I think there were 60 or 70 notes passed back and forth between them. “We think it is a real representation of what went on… She can dispute it but the reality is, she was kicked out of the tailor shop for inappropriate conduct, for going in the back room with David Sweat,” he explained. We got as much information as we could from the police reports, the interviews, and then we put together our story. “We talked to a lot of people who were in the tailor shop, and in the Inspector General’s Office. Stiller promised he did his due diligence. “Look, that’s the story has always told,” Stiller insisted. RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Catches Ben Stiller In The Act Although Mitchell has yet to see the show, she said, “Ben Stiller is a son-of-a-b**ch liar.” She insisted, “I never had sex with them.” Patricia Arquette plays Mitchell in the miniseries. “I was just trying to tell the story in as real and hopefully as entertaining a way as possible without exploiting.” “The reality of what it means to be a worker in a prison and the situation that everybody deals with up there in that part of the state,” Stiller continued. This was a story I wanted to tell in as full a way as possible and really tried to take into account the context of the world that everyone was living in.” “We did have to create scenes based on us inferring what we believed to be the truth… My guideline was always to try and tell what I thought happened. “It’s not a documentary,” Stiller told Deadline. Mitchell lambasted Stiller for fabricating details of the story, particularly Mitchell’s rumoured sexual involvement with the pair, in “Escape at Dannemora”. RELATED: Ben Stiller Says He’s ‘Not Really That Interested’ In Making Comedies The real-life former prison worker Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell, 54, was labelled the “Shawskank” for setting killers David Sweat and Richard Matt free. The director was accused of fudging details in the show based on the true story of how a former prison worker helped two inmates escape Dannemora Correctional Institute. 'Escape at Dannemora' TV show premiere, Arrivals, New York, USA - īen Stiller is standing by his work in the Showtime miniseries “Escape at Dannemora”. ![]()
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