Manson - Long Way Down
Genre: Biography / Crime
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Lon Charles
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Julia Garner, Juliette Angelo, Emilio Estevez, Chris Mulkey, Lew Temple, Jenna Fischer, Justin Chatwin and Jay R. Ferguson
Plot: 1965. High school student Lynette Fromme (Juliette Angelo) and her family move to Redondo Beach. Her father William (Lew Temple) explains to her that this is a fresh start for the entire family and implores Lynette to make the best of this new opportunity.
Meanwhile in downtown Los Angeles, new Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi (Emilio Estevez) sets up his desk at the Los Angeles County Justice Center. Just as he gets ready to settle in and look over a stack of possible cases to prosecute, his wife Gail (Jenna Fischer) enters the office and brings him a sandwich for lunch at his first day in his new office.
1960. Charles Manson (Jim Sturgess) is still taking guitar lessons from former gangster Alvin Karpis (Chris Mulkey), but isn't really making much progress. While Manson plays the guitar, a guard taunts him, saying that Manson has all the time in the world to get better since he's never getting out. Manson calmly looks up and says get out of where. Phil Kaufman (Justin Chatwin) overhears this and begins laughing. Manson yells at Kaufman to stop laughing at him. Kaufman walks over and introduces himself. Kaufman asks Manson what he did to get locked up, and Manson says that he isn't locked up, he's right at home. Kaufman is confused by the response and tells Manson that he got busted for smuggling marijuana.
1965. Lynette is smoking weed and drinking beer at the beach with some classmates when they are busted by the police. William picks her up from the police station later that night. He yells at her in the car and tells her that if she doesn't turn things around that he'll kick her out of the house.
Bugliosi starts looking through the folders of cases and comes across the paperwork for misdemeanor charges against the teenage Lynette Fromme. He decides he doesn't want to waste his time on such a penny ante case and has the charges against Lynette dropped. His co-workers are confused why he would drop the charges on such an easy open and shut case. Bugliosi tells them that he cares about ridding the world of evil and he doesn't believe that ruining the life of a teenage girl by locking her up for smoking a little marijuana really helps his cause.
1961. Charles Manson lays in his prison cell bunk day dreaming of life as a rock star. He starts singing a song, but is distracted by his cellmate, Lafayette Raimer (Jay R. Ferguson) reading a book. Manson asks what the book is, and Raimer begins telling Manson about the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Manson has never heard of such a thing and asks Raimer to teach him about it. Raimer tells Manson that we are all immortal spiritual beings, and that experiences extend well beyond a single life time, but that we need not be crippled by our pasts. Manson begins repeating the tenets Raimer is expounding, making them his own.
1965. Mary Brunner (Julia Garner) walks across the stage at her college graduation at the University of Wisconsin. After the graduation ceremony, Mary gleefully talks to her family about how excited she is to start her new job as a library assistant in California at the University of California at Berkeley. Mary packs up her things into her car and begins driving toward her destiny in the Golden State.
Meanwhile in downtown Los Angeles, new Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi (Emilio Estevez) sets up his desk at the Los Angeles County Justice Center. Just as he gets ready to settle in and look over a stack of possible cases to prosecute, his wife Gail (Jenna Fischer) enters the office and brings him a sandwich for lunch at his first day in his new office.
1960. Charles Manson (Jim Sturgess) is still taking guitar lessons from former gangster Alvin Karpis (Chris Mulkey), but isn't really making much progress. While Manson plays the guitar, a guard taunts him, saying that Manson has all the time in the world to get better since he's never getting out. Manson calmly looks up and says get out of where. Phil Kaufman (Justin Chatwin) overhears this and begins laughing. Manson yells at Kaufman to stop laughing at him. Kaufman walks over and introduces himself. Kaufman asks Manson what he did to get locked up, and Manson says that he isn't locked up, he's right at home. Kaufman is confused by the response and tells Manson that he got busted for smuggling marijuana.
1965. Lynette is smoking weed and drinking beer at the beach with some classmates when they are busted by the police. William picks her up from the police station later that night. He yells at her in the car and tells her that if she doesn't turn things around that he'll kick her out of the house.
Bugliosi starts looking through the folders of cases and comes across the paperwork for misdemeanor charges against the teenage Lynette Fromme. He decides he doesn't want to waste his time on such a penny ante case and has the charges against Lynette dropped. His co-workers are confused why he would drop the charges on such an easy open and shut case. Bugliosi tells them that he cares about ridding the world of evil and he doesn't believe that ruining the life of a teenage girl by locking her up for smoking a little marijuana really helps his cause.
1961. Charles Manson lays in his prison cell bunk day dreaming of life as a rock star. He starts singing a song, but is distracted by his cellmate, Lafayette Raimer (Jay R. Ferguson) reading a book. Manson asks what the book is, and Raimer begins telling Manson about the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Manson has never heard of such a thing and asks Raimer to teach him about it. Raimer tells Manson that we are all immortal spiritual beings, and that experiences extend well beyond a single life time, but that we need not be crippled by our pasts. Manson begins repeating the tenets Raimer is expounding, making them his own.
1965. Mary Brunner (Julia Garner) walks across the stage at her college graduation at the University of Wisconsin. After the graduation ceremony, Mary gleefully talks to her family about how excited she is to start her new job as a library assistant in California at the University of California at Berkeley. Mary packs up her things into her car and begins driving toward her destiny in the Golden State.
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