On Nov. 5, 2006, as a camera crew from NBC’s hit tabloid news show To Catch a Predator descended upon his house alongside a seven-man SWAT team, Texas District Attorney Bill Conradt committed suicide with a Browning .380 pistol. He’d been communicating online and via telephone with someone he thought was a 13-year-old boy but was actually an adult working for the vigilante group Perverted Justice. The incident sparked a major lawsuit, and led directly to NBC’s decision to forever pull the plug on To Catch a Predator.

It also serves as the climax of the Lance Oppenheim movie Primetime, where Robert Pattinson embodies the role of To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen in such eerie fashion that a Best Actor Oscar nomination is almost a guarantee.

Joining Pattinson in the movie is an unlikely team of actors, including onetime NBC head Jeff Zucker, former child star Jonathan Lipnicki, The Office ‘s Creed Bratton, and indie-rock star Phoebe Bridgers, in her first acting role.

For the role of Bill Conradt,…