This TV special presents the highlights of Zsa Zsa Gabor's trial after an incident in L.A. when she was stopped by police officer Paul Kramer and slapped him. An overview inclined to showcase part of the legal procedure taken against the actress, most of the focus is on the lawyer, the prosecution and the star herself who managed to use such exposition to reveal her comic and dramatic talents on the stand. Trust me, she was hilarious. But until we get to those fun bits, most of the trial is just talk after talk, very tiresome and the biased narrator who pops from time to time, deeply inclined to criticize Gabor - and there's a damaging part where anonymous people are asked if they know any of the actress films and none of them knew any of her projects (I'm not a big fan but I knew at least a few titles to answer if such question was made to me).
Fascination came to me while watching "The People vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor" just to take a peak and have a real feel of what court procedures really work. Hollywood isn't much far from reality except from creating tension where there isn't none, but it's basically the same thing: drama, strange humor, confusion and plenty of unusual moments that only fiction can make it interesting. In the case versus Gabor it was highly unusual (and amusing) when she had to demonstrate the whole incident by getting out of the stand and with her lawyer playing the cop at the same time he asked questions about directions, positions, what was said in what they called "the alleged slapping". And there's also the classic media circus we all see on film but in this one whenever Zsa Zsa criticized the cop or anything, the judge was quick in action to cut her remarks. Her sense of humor was pure class despite all the problems faced here but as we all know, she lost the case and faced a minor penalty. There's so many good elements in this trial that a movie recreation of it is made necessary. A dramatic comedy that would be one of a kind.
I won't deliver any opinion on who's right or wrong since we only get a glimpse of events/trial, the documentary favors the showy cop for a long time at the same time Gabor reveals what feels like a clear case of excessive force by the police; it's hard to tell. You watch and be the judge. 8/10