Primetime Explained: Fact and Fiction in the New To Catch a Predator Movie

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“Is thatactually what happened?”

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I imagine that will be the main question from audienceswho watchPrimetime.The film stars Robert Pattinson asChris Hansen, the Dateline NBCreporterwho became nationally famous as a result of his work on the recurringseriesTo Catch a Predator.

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InPrimetime, Pattinson’s Hansen is obsessively fixated on usingTo Catch a Predator becoming an even bigger media star. The movie also follows Hansen’s producer (Merritt Wever) as she contemplates a major job offer from a rival network, and a young actor (Skyler Gisondo) whogets hired as one ofTo Catch a Predator’s decoys with disastrous results.

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Primetime is not exactly subtle about its message about reality TV’s insatiable hunger for sensationalism no matter the cost. It’s so unsubtle, and presents such an unflattering portrait of Hansen and his crew, that it’s fair for audiences to ask that question: Is that actually what happened?

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In fact, a lot of Primetime is based ondocumentedhistory— with the caveat that a fair amount of poetic license is taken by director Lance Oppenheim in how he depicts those events. Let’s go throughPrimetime and separate what’s real and what’s closer to reality TV.

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What WasTo Catch a Predator?

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NBC has aired the newsmagazineDateline NBC since 1992; it’s still on the air today. The show serves as the umbrella program for a variety of true crimeinvetigations and broader news reports.

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In the mid-2000s,Datelinebegan airing a series of segments calledTo Catch a Predator, hosted by NBC reporter Chris Hansen. In the segments, Hansen teamed withan online vigilante group called Perverted Justice that visited online chat rooms and message boards searching formen who were prowling the internet looking for young peoplethey could seduce.

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On each episode ofTo Catch a Predator,Hansen and Perverted Justice wouldtravel toa different part of the country, and then use decoys to lure their targets to a home. The targets believed an underage boy or girl would be waiting for them. Instead, they found Hansen, who would confront the predators with transcript of their illicit online conversations. Eventually, when the target would try to leave, local law enforcement would arrive and place the predator under arrest.

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There was seemingly no shortage of men interested in these sorts of illegal and immoral activities, and the sting operations took place all over the country — from Florida to Texas to California —suggesting the problem was pervasive and widespread, increasing the program’s impact.

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To Catch a Predatordrew strong ratings, especially by the standards ofDateline, and it absolutely made Hansen a celebrity. (He made appearances on talk shows likeOprah,The Tonight Show, andJimmy Kimmel Live!) He continued hostingTo Catch a Predatoruntil NBC canceled the series in2007.

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Did Chris HansenGetCaughtHaving an Affair?

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Primetime compressesreality’s timelineso that multiple real incidents overlap for greater dramatic effect, but about 15 years ago tabloidsdid target Hansen and report on his alleged marital infidelities.

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In Primetime, Chris Hansen tries to reconcile with his wife Mary (Anna Faris)after some sort of indiscretion outside of his marriage.Later, while traveling with theTo Catch a Predatorcrew in Florida, Hansen sneaks out of his hotel to visita woman he’s been carrying on an affair with.As Hansen tries to break off the relationship, the paparazzisnap pictures of the couple. Later, Hansen will field a phone call from a tabloidtrying to shake him down with the incriminating evidence.

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Here’s what really happened, at least according to theNew York Post: “The married NBC anchor,” they write, “was secretly filmed on a date with a blonde television reporter” as part of “an undercover sting operation arranged by the National Enquirer.” (According to Wikipedia, which is never wrong, Hansen and his first wife Mary divorced in 2020.)

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That said, it’s worth noting that this “undercover sting”occurred in 2011, while the show’s disastrousvisitto Texas, which happensafter that Florida date inPrimetime, actually occured in 2006.To Catch a Predator was canceled in 2008, three years beforethat so-called “sting.”

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Did the Sequence in Texas Really Happen?

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READ MORE: ScreenCrush’s Full Review ofPrimetime

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Primetime’s big climax involves To Catch a Predator’s trip to Texas, where the show partners with local law enforcement (including Bokeem Woodbine’s chief of police) to root out potential sexual predators. Perverted Justiceidentifies a potential target in the region, who turns out to bea district attorney named Bill (played by Alex Winter). When Billremains wary about accepting thedecoy’s invitation, Hansen, his crew, and the police travel tohishome and prepare to raid it.As Dan the decoy (Skyler Gisondo) tries to keep Bill distracted by singing a song from the musicalRent, police break into his house and Bill commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.

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These events are based on a real incident that occurred in the Dallas area in November of 2006; they’rechronicled in detail intheEsquirearticle that serves asPrimetime’s source material.The film version fudges and exaggerates some of the details — in the movie, the raid on the ADA’s home occurs at night, in reality the police arrived at the house in themorning — but the broader points are largely accurate:To Catch a Predator went to Texas, idenified an assistant district attorney named Bill Conradt as a potential predator, and when they realized he was not going to travel to the location they were using for their televised sting, they instead went to his home.With a SWAT team closing in,Conradt shot himself in the head.

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Conradt’s death garnered national headlines and generated enormous controversy aroundTo Catch a Predator.Conradt’s family sued NBC, asking for over $100 million in damages; the case was later settled out of court.And the local district attorney ultimately decided not to prosecute any of the two dozen other menTo Catch a Predator caught on camera during their time in Texas.

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“The fact that somebody besides police officers were involved is what makes this case bad,” Collin County District Attorney John Roach told NBC News. “If professionals had been running the show, they would have done a much better job rather than being at the beck and call of outsiders.”

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What Does Chris Hansen Think of the Movie?

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As of this writing, Hansen has not seen the film. In late August, he said publicly that he tried to attend an early screening of Primetimebut was denied access byitsdistributor, A24, because he refused to sign a release form.

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“The lawyers at A24 wanted me to sign away my rights to my name, image and brand essentially, as well as any potential legal rights that would come out of the movie,” Hansen said on Jesse Watters Primetime. “I couldn’t sign that, so they didn’t show me the film.”

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In a subsequent interview withUSA Today conducted on September 23, Hansen said he still had not seen Primetime. Instead, he planned to go tothe theater to watch it on opening weekend “like everybody else.”

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“I’m going to watch it in New York City,” he told the outlet. “We’re going to bring a crew along, interview some theatergoers afterward and put together a little piece for one of my podcasts.”

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Despite the fact that he had not seen the film yet,Hansen didclaim that A24 and the creators ofPrimetimewere trying to “exploit the brand that I’ve built over the last 45 years. You can decide whether that’s ethical or legal or identity theft or however you look at it. But it seems a little exploitive, as Hollywood often is.”

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These films were box office hits, critical darlings, and award winners. That doesn’t mean we have to agree.

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As of this writing, Jurassic World is the tenth-highest grossing film in the history of cinema, with $1.67 billion in worldwide ticket sales. It not only tops all the other films in the franchise (including the original), it earned more money than such popular hits as The Avengers, Barbie, and both Frozen films. Jurassic World relaunched a franchise that most people had written off, sparking at least three more sequels, plus several animated TV series. It also got generally positive reviews from critics, and it holds a positive average score on Letterboxd. And it is … an inherently dumb premise filled with not-very-bright characters who almost seem to want to be eaten by dinosaurs given the choices they make? I still don’t understand why you would genetically engineer any dinosaur that would be especially smart and violent under any circumstances; much less why you would give what is ostensibly a billion-dollar zoo animal magical camouflage powers. (What good is a dinosaur as a theme park attraction if no one can see it?!?) I love a good disaster film as much as the next guy, but we all deserve better than this.

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