Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, revisiting To Catch A Predator and the Texas sting tied to Bill Conradt. Conradt died by suicide as police began breaching his home; the 2006 incident helped prompt the show’s cancellation and is the film’s3?
Conradt, a Rockwall County assistant district attorney, was alleged to have tried to meet a juvenile for sex. His family filed a $100 million wrongful-death suit against NBC; it settled in 2008 for an undisclosed amount.
In the film, Hansen’s Emmy ambitions and ratings pressure drive the pursuit of a man an online vigilante believes was messaging a 13-year-old boy. The review describes the film as sharply critical of Hansen and says that, in real life, he stood by the sting and expressed no regret over Conradt’s suicide.
