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Hansen: Discovery Channel/Courtesy Everett Collection; Primetime: A24 “Primetime” is a box office overachiever, but the subject of the A24 film calls it a “complete work of fiction.”
Lance Oppenheim’s movie centers on “To Catch a Predator,” the popular “Dateline” segment that ran from 2004 to 2007. In the show, an advocacy group with adult decoys posing as children would chat with online predators in order to lure them to a house, ostensibly to have sex with a minor. But instead of their prey, they would be met by host Chris Hansen (played by Robert Pattinson), who would interrogate the predators about why they were pursuing illicit and illegal affairs. The suspects were then arrested by law enforcement waiting outside the house.
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