The Thin Pink Line

Infobox Film
name = The Thin Pink Line


imdb_id = 0171825
writer = Joe Dietl
Michael Irpino
starring = Laura Kightlinger
Janeane Garofalo
Margaret Cho
Jennifer Aniston
David Schwimmer
Mike Myers
director = Joe Dietl
Michael Irpino|
producer = Steve Bulzoni
distributor =
release_date = 1998
runtime = 106 Minutes
movie_language = English
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music =
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"The Thin Pink Line" is a 1998 film directed by Joe Dietl and Michael Irpino.

Plot outline

A small film crew choose as the subject of their next documentary a death-row inmate who insists he is innocent of murder. Subtitled 'The Making of the Making of a Documentary', this film is meant to be the product of another documentary film crew that has been documenting the crew's efforts to interview the inmate's friends and family. However, this is a pretense that is not consistently applied throughout the narrative, and this film only occasionally qualifies as a mockumentary. The inmate himself is extravagantly gay, and much of the content of the film centres on a variety of jokes at the expense of homosexuals.

The title is a parody of Errol Morris' documentary "The Thin Blue Line", which raised questions about the conviction of a prison inmate on death-row.