Brother's Keeper
by Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger
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Actor: Connie Chung, Delbert Ward, John Teeple, Lyman Ward, Roscoe WardDirector: Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger
Cinematographer: Douglas Cooper
Cinematographer: Richard Hissong
Editor: Bruce Sinofsky
Producer: Bruce Sinofsky
Editor: Joe Berlinger
Producer: Joe Berlinger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Movie Reviews of Brother's Keeper
Movie Review: a truly heart warming tale of murder
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was just one of those movies where you watch it once and just have to have it for all time. Its a part of history for central NY and for the start of cameras allowed in court rooms across America as well as corruption in the justice system. This movie gives you an unexplainable feeling from the start of the film to the finish, making it so you can hardly peel yourself away from it. A truly classic film and i am proud to have it among the collection of other films of true story nature of mine. Also a plus on this DVD is unseen footage now where you can unlike the VHS click on "special features" and view another part of the "Ward boys" history. truly amazing and well done documentary, a must see, and for someone like myself, a must own. Justin Lopez Sherburne NY.
Summary of Brother's Keeper
On the morning of June 6, 1990, the village of Munnsville (pop. 499) was just another forgotten corner of rural America. But in the days and months that followed, this New York farming community would become the center of one of the most celebrated and biOne of the best films of 1992, this acclaimed documentary focuses on the alleged murder in June 1990 of 64-year-old Bill Ward by his brother Delbert, 59, a simple dairy farmer whose defense became a rallying cause for the citizens of Munnsville, a tiny farming community in central New York. Known by all of Munnsville as harmless hermits, the Ward brothers (also including Lyman and Roscoe) live an 18th-century lifestyle in their tiny, grimy shack, sleeping in the same bed through cold winters and tending daily to their hayfields and livestock. Semiliterate and stunted by minimal exposure to the outside world, the Wards are disheveled children in the bodies of aging men; and when Delbert is charged with suffocating his ailing brother Bill, he's a prime target for legal manipulation and a media circus that's immediately drawn to his case. Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky spent nearly a year with the Wards and the Munnsville citizens who rallied to Delbert's defense, and their efforts prove that reality is often more compelling than even the richest fictional drama. As a slice-of-life study of eccentricity, country-folk stereotypes, small-town wisdom, and the power of the media, Brother's Keeper is funny, fascinating, and full of compassionate humanity. It's also a riveting courtroom mystery with characters that no casting director could improve upon, tracking the course of justice while leaving the viewer to mull over the truth behind Delbert Ward's alleged crime. --Jeff Shannon
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