"The actual predator looks exactly like Brett Peter Cowan," Bruce Morcombe told Australia's ABC News. The boy's parents rejected the idea that the movie is fiction. "Individuals who make money on a heinous crime are parasites … We find the making of the movie morally corrupt and cruel." "The movie The Stranger is not supported by the Morcombe family," Denise Morcombe tweeted in July. Morcombe's parents Denise and Bruce have strongly criticized The Stranger. But as we've seen with Dahmer, another true-crime offering on Netflix, such grim retellings can renew trauma for victims. The film currently sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ian Routledge/Netflix What's the reaction to The Stranger been? In The Stranger on Netflix, Joel Edgerton plays Mark Frame, an undercover cop who finds himself getting close to someone who may have committed an unspeakable crime. But the movie focuses more on the sting operation than on the horrific crime itself. The Stranger changes the names of those involved in the Morcombe case but sticks close to many details - both Morcombe and his movie counterpart James Liston are the same age and were abducted from a bus stop under a Queensland overpass, for example, and a real-life undercover agent did befriend Cowan and pull him deeper into the pretend crime ring. Days after Cowan confessed to killing the child and was charged - you can watch a remarkable short video clip of the actual arrest here - law enforcement finally found the evidence they'd hoped for to push forward a prosecution: Morcombe's remains. The book details the covert scheme that ultimately led to a secretly recorded confession by Cowan, an original person of interest in the high-profile case who had earlier denied any involvement in the boy's disappearance. The film is based on crime reporter Kate Kyriacou's book The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer. Eight years later, his killer, known pedophile Brett Peter Cowan, was finally arrested and charged. The Stranger is a fictionalized account of the massive real-life manhunt for the killer of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in 2003 while on his way to buy Christmas presents for his family at a local shopping mall. “I think the next one would have to be called ‘Monk’s Really, Really Final No Kidding Case – This Time We Mean It’ or something like that.What true story is The Stranger based on? But now that we’ve cracked it open, I’m just going to leave that door open,” he says. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie” begs the question - is this really a final goodbye to Monk? Shalhoub isn’t sure. Not all of us may go over and straighten that frame, but good luck trying to keep your eyes off of it, you know?” “Maybe it’s a crooked picture frame on a wall. Shalhoub also suspects there’s a little OCD in all of us, whether it’s being annoyed by the placement of something or an odd interaction on the street that sticks in your head. He adds: “I always hear about adolescents and young teens relating to him, too, because that’s such a time of life being feeling socially awkward and feeling you’re not really a child, you’re not really a grown up.” We’re looking behind us and we’re reassessing and reevaluating,” Shalhoub says. But then as we move beyond that, we mostly are looking backwards. And then when we’re in our middle ages, we feel more settled in the present. “When we’re young, everything’s in front of us. So Monk is reevaluating his life and his career. His obsession with details - including nine pages about a suspect’s vacuum cleaner - has prompted his publisher to scrap the book and ask for his advance back. He wrote a memoir but burned through editors and ghost writers. Monk is in a moody place, no longer detecting and lonely. When we reconnect with Monk, it is present day and he’s emerged from the pandemic, having spent most of it in a full protective suit and using in-home rapid tests every 20 minutes. He walked away after solving his last case - the murder of his beloved wife. Monk helped the San Francisco Police Department solve crimes because his fixations enable him to observe things that others overlook. We just kind of folded right back into it.” “That’s how I felt at the first table read when we all got back together again. Shalhoub laughs that when the rock band Eagles got back together in 1994, founding member Glenn Frey said they’d never broke up, they just took a 14-year vacation.
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