Ted Bundy (film)

Ted Bundy is a 2002 American crime drama film directed and cowritten by Matthew Bright. The film dramatizes the crimes of serial killer Ted Bundy. It stars Michael Reilly Burke in the title role, and Boti Bliss as Bundys girlfriend, Lee a character based on Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundys real life girlfriend during his killing spree.

In 1975, one of his victims, Tina Gabler, escapes him when she throws herself from his moving car. Based on her description of his car, Bundy is stopped by a police officer and arrested. In his trunk, the officers find pantyhose masks, a hand saw, a crowbar, knives, ropes and handcuffs. Even though he is identified by Tina Gabler in a lineup, he denies ever having seen the woman. When he is visited by his girlfriend at the Colorado State Prison, he admits to her that charges are being brought against him for multiple murders but stresses the fact that there is no evidence, however, and that he will never be convicted at this point she distances herself from him. Due to his wish to defend himself, he is granted access to the courthouse law library, and promptly escapes by jumping from an upper story window. He is jailed again after an auto theft, but manages to escape yet again months later. This time he overpowers four women in their home and brutally beats them. After the murder of a little girl he becomes heavily intoxicated and is recognized by a police officer and arrested after a short chase. At trial the judge sentences Ted to be executed by a current of electricity. After a brief chat on the phone, he makes a final statement before the execution is carried out.The films fictionalized narrative takes many creative liberties, changing or conflating events and shifting their timing, including altering of names for protection. This is very common in Hollywood retellings of reallife events. Examples include ........

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