It’s difficult to grasp that Amanda Knox was jailed for murder almost 20 years ago.

The image that Knox conjures even today is one of a young American co-ed, clad in jeans and billowy skirts, winding the ancient paths of Perugia, Italy during a study abroad term. After the brutal killing of her roommate Meredith Kercher, Knox and boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were vilified then jailed vilified for years for a crime they didn’t commit — while bloodthirsty media consumers dissected their (at times quite odd) dynamic.

Grace Van Patten, a 28-year-old rising star whose subtle confidence and emotional poker face has propelled her to acclaim on the Hulu series “Tell Me Lies” had been anxious to play Knox since 2016. That’s when Netflix released “Amanda Knox,” a documentary that specifically ex

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