Advantages: More detailed vision of crime than I have ever seen before Disadvantages: The fact that stories like the one depicted in the show occur.
...strand in the form of Five Day’s a serious so popular that after the screening of episode one the show was immediately re-commissioned; few shows have been re-commissioned on the strength of one episode over the last 15 years; in fact two have Five Days and Doctor Who.
Five Days follows an investigation over a five day period, this is not necessarily five consecutive days, but five days selected at random from the start to the end of the investigation.
... ...The unique aspect of five days falls in more than the way that the investigation is handled, its split into more diverse sections than any other crime drama I have seen. Firstly of course you do have this snapshot five days scenario, then you have the unusual aspect that its two separate crimes that occur to the same family on the same day, thirdly you have the up close view of the effect this sort of incident has on a family, before focusing on ...
sghawken 12.06.2007
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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