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A Deadly American Marriage (2025)

Documentary | 102 minutes
3,25 69 votes

Genre: Documentary / Crime

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Jessica Burgess and Jenny Popplewell

IMDb score: 6,6 (6.922)

Releasedate: 9 May 2025

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A Deadly American Marriage plot

When Jason Corbett, an Irish widower and father of two, rekindled his love for his American au pair Molly Martens in 2008, their relationship seemed like something straight out of a fairytale. Together with Jason’s children, the couple moved from Ireland to North Carolina to start a new life together. But on August 2, 2015, their idyllic story took a dark turn when Jason was killed during a violent altercation in his home. The perpetrators were Molly and her father, Thomas Martens, a former FBI agent. This documentary sheds light on the many questions that have lingered since the events of that night.

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rep_robert

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The good thing about this documentary is that both parties have their say and that we as viewers can decide which side we choose. But you can clearly taste that the defense's story is shaky on all sides.

What's important to me is Molly's attitude. I think she's a real creep, which the entire documentary shows is a pathological liar. The defense also relies purely on denigrating Jason, even if they have to add lies (about the father of her deceased first wife). The tapes feel manipulative and you can clearly hear Jason referring several times to her trying to take the kids away, which the defense is trying to explain away as mental abuse.
In the end, Jason was brutally murdered and his brains bashed in multiple times while he was already helpless on the ground. That may not make a marriage good (which is obvious, but there are always 2 involved), but nothing justifies such a gruesome death
. And when Molly starts shouting that those kids are influenced by Evil (with a capital E), you already know that she is not pure in the bone.

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Donkerwoud

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I'm a little tired of this type of documentaries like 'Making a Murderer'. The sensational criminal cases to expose weaknesses in the American criminal justice system. Set up full of twists and turns, as if you were watching a thriller. In that sense, 'A Deadly American Marriage' (2025) once again crosses off all the clichés. The seemingly happy American family. The legal tug-of-war around sober detectives and flamboyant lawyers. The objective truth versus the processes to ensure a fair trial. Although it remains a shocking case, certainly because the traumatic past keeps recurring in the lives of Jason's children. Somewhere you hope with them that Molly Martens will be unequivocally convicted, but somewhere you also have to acknowledge that there is indeed room for interpretation. The final verdict will always remain unsatisfactory.

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Interesting documentary. I think Jason was indeed murdered, but I also think there wasn't enough evidence for a conviction because the "proven beyond reasonable doubt" criterion wasn't met. The tapes, whether Molly staged them or not, paint a negative picture of him. The children's testimonies also exonerate her. It's not a perfect murder, but it's still very cleverly acted. Or maybe they're just genuinely innocent.[/spoilers]

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