Film, TV and stage star Brian Dennehy will direct the fact-based drama "
Redemption" in the thesp's film-directing debut.
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Redemption" involves the story of Joyce Ann Brown -- who spent more than nine years in prison for a 1980 fur store robbery and murder in Dallas that she didn't commit -- and Jim McCloskey, a crusader for the wrongly convicted, who fought for her release. Film is set to begin in the spring.