The Thin Pink Line is a 1998 film directed by Joe Dietl and Michael Irpino.

The title is a parody of Errol Morris

Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...

' documentary The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line (documentary)

The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris, depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to die for a murder he did not commit. Adams' case was reviewed and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film's release.-Synopsis:The film...

, which raised questions about the conviction of a prison inmate on death row.

Plot outline

A small film crew choose as the subject of their next documentary a death row

Death row

Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...

 inmate who insists he is innocent of murder. Subtitled The Making of the Making of a Documentary, this film is meant to be the product of another documentary film crew that has been documenting the crew's efforts to interview the inmate's friends and family.

The inmate himself is flamboyantly gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

, and much of the content of the film centres on a variety of jokes about homosexuals.