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It's a terrific story -- part mystery, part farce, part legal nail-biter -- with a last-minute reversal so bitterly ironic it could have been scripted by Billy Wilder.

A sly curve ball of a documentary best described as a sports-themed "Rashomon" with an O. Henry twist.

A rarity for documentaries. The movie is a full-tilt farce, and were it not completely true, it'd be a piercing satire that Preston Sturges might have polished into a resonant screwball.

A wry, "Rashomon"-like tale.

But by film's end, no one is looking good. If Wranovics is somewhat too noncommittal in his presentation, he still shows a great eye for detail.

Mr. Wranovics sometimes goes too far in setting up cute situations for filming witnesses' comments.

But while the material is interesting, it's not substantial enough to sustain a feature-length treatment.