Snap Decision

They Took Her Family Photos And Developed Them Into A Crime.

With one innocent click of the camera, a young widowed mother enters a frightening nightmare that ultimately may lead to decades behind bars. It was nothing more than spontaneous family fun when Jen Bradley's (Mare Winningham) daughters were photographed by their mother's childhood friend, Carrie Dixon (Felicity Huffman), a professional photographer. No one would expect that these innocent shots of her young children would spark a police investigation of child pornography and abuse.

What sounds like an absurd joke turns into a harrowing reality that carries a 50-year prison sentence for Jen. Pursuing the case with a vengeance is Detective John Collins, who seems to care little for the truth. Most troubling to Collins and the prosecutor, is the vast number of shots taken of the scantily clad girls in seemingly suggestive poses.

To the bewilderment of all but the legal system, the case goes to trial, where Jen faces the real prospect of losing her children forever. But the determined mother refuses to back down from a relentless prosecutor and a hardened judge.

While the camera never lies, Jen realizes that the real danger is in who interprets the film.