Barrymore: The Body in the Pool

5/10/2020

My overall feeling is that this documentary, though it resolves nothing ultimately, does the best it can with what it has available to them. It presents a sequence of events that is perhaps helpeful to those who only became aware of the bumps in the story, the times it hit the headlines. It seems it focuses less on Barrymore and a bit more on the victim, Stuart Lubbock. As an American, the story rather naturally reminds me of the JonBenet Ramsey case, where the crime scene investigation was also bungled by the police first on the scene. And the small circle of party guests are either innocently telling the unhelpful truth, or else one or more are sticking to their lie like glue. And in both cases, wealthy persons are suspects (though the Ramseys weren’t full on celebrities until the un