James Bulger's mother calls for film about son's murder to be pulled from Oscars even as director Vincent Lambe defends movie
The petition to take down the movie was launched three weeks ago, has since received more than 230,000 signatures online
Denise Fergus, James Bulger's mother, has written an emotional letter calling on Vincent Lambe, the director of Oscar-nominated short film 'Detainment', to withdraw the film from the Academy Award nominations.
The 30-minute film about one of the most notorious real-life child abduction and murder case in Britain centers on the 1993 killing of 2-year-old James Bulger, who was tortured and killed by two 10-year-old boys. The short relies on transcripts of interviews with the killers to re-enact the events.
The petition to remove the short from the nominations, which was launched three weeks ago, has since received more than 230,000 signatures online.
