The Preppie Murder (1989)
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Directors
John Herzfeld
Cast
Danny Aiello, Lara Flynn Boyle, William Baldwin
The story
The film reenacts Robert Chambers' murder of Jennifer Levin. Chambers, a man who attended prep schools on a scholarship, kills Levin, who herself was of a privileged background after they leave a trendy Manhattan bar together. When Detective Mike Sheehan arrests him, Chambers claims that he killed her in self-defense after rough sex got out of hand.
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