Everyone is on trial in Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart , which airs Aug. 18 on HBO.
Pamela Smart, who was found guilty of plotting the murder of her husband, received a harsher sentence than the teenagers who admitted to actually murdering him.
The court convicted her of conspiracy to commit murder, being an accomplice to murder, and witness tampering. She is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole that the teenagers who admitted to murdering Gregg Smart all received in their sentencing. Smart had been having an affair with one of the boys — he was 15 at the time. "It's a trope," the documentary's director Jeremiah Zagar told BuzzFeed. "She fits into that trope. She is that Lady Macbeth, she is that Eve to that Adam."
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Before he started the documentary, the director had heard of the 1995 Nicole Kidman movie To Die For, but he didn't know that it was actually based on Pamela Smart's life.
It was directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starred Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, and Casey Affleck, among many others.
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There is a moment in Captivated when the novelist who wrote the book version of To Die For confuses Pamela Smart with her main character, the sociopathic Suzanne Maretto.
She is not the only person in the film who confuses the real Pamela Smart with a fictionalized version of Pamela Smart.
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There is a moment in the film where the cop who arrested Smart reports what he said to her upon her arrest. Then he repeats it, because he wants to say it with a little more emotion.
Zagar didn't notice the cop acting out his cop role until he watched it in the editing room. And he said that indeed, "That's what I wanted from him — a little more emotion." It was a perfect illustration: "Everybody gets caught up in the retelling of the story."
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