When a true crime story is adapted into a fictional movie, it’s usually after the case has reached its end, giving the film a definitive conclusion based on reality. Sometimes, however, things shake out differently. In 2010, Ryan Gosling starred in All Good Things, a dramatization of the long-standing speculation around Robert Durst, the son of a New York real-estate magnate whose wife went missing under suspicious circumstances. Decades later, two more murders seemed to lead right to him.
At the end of All Good Things, a disclaimer states that Durst is a free man, and that the three crimes are all unsolved. But director Andrew Jarecki wasn’t satisfied with that ending, so he started interviewing Durst for a documentary. Ten years ago today, the end product premiered on HBO — and led to real-world consequences.
