Paris Trout

REVIEW
A stunning made-for-cable adaptation of Pete Dexter's award-winning novel. Hopper is outstanding as the title character, a racist 1940s Southern storekeeper who kills a young black girl, the sister of a man Trout cheated in a car sale, and who now stands trial for murder. Hershey is terrific as Hopper's abused wife, whose moral outrage to her husband's actions sends her into the arms of lawyer Harris (in a wonderful characterization).