Capturing the Friedmans
by Andrew Jarecki
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Actor: Arnold Friedman (II), David Friedman (IX), Elaine Friedman, Jesse Friedman (II), Seth Friedman (II)Director: Andrew Jarecki
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 235 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Video
Movie Reviews of Capturing the Friedmans
Movie Review: interesting and frustrating
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie comes at you on so many levels: who done it?, social criticism, family film (of an different sort) but for me most of all the evocation of a specific ethnic group of a certain time in a certain place where everything was filmed: births, circumcisions, Seders, birthdays parties and now the ultimate: the falling apart of a family. I was spooked out when Jesse is about to get sentenced and the boys were joking in front of the cameras and I thought, "Yes, that's how we would have behaved too."
Summary of Capturing the Friedmans
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and with over $3 million at the box office to date Capturing The Friedmans is nothing short of the most riveting provocative and hotly debated films of the year. Despite their predilection for hamming it up in front of home-movie cameras the Friedmans were a normal middle-class family living in the affluent New York suburb of Great Neck. One Thanksgiving as the family gathers at home for a quiet holiday dinner their front door explodes splintered by a police battering ram. Officers rush into the house accusing Arnold Friedman and his youngest son Jesse of hundreds of shocking crimes. The film follows their story from the public's perspective and through unique real footage of the family in crisis shot inside the Friedman house. As the police investigate and the community reacts the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate revealing provocative questions about truth justice family and -ultimately-truth. With an abundance of exclusive DVD bonus features supplied on a second disc Capturing the Friedmans is sure to capture you and pin you to your seat.Running Time: 107 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 026359227820 Manufacturer No: 92278A Sundance Grand Jury prize winner and a true conversation starter, Capturing the Friedmans travels into one apparently ordinary Long Island family's heart of darkness. Arnold and Elaine Friedman had a normal life with their three sons until Arnold was arrested on multiple (and increasingly lurid) charges of child abuse. Because the Friedmans had documented their own lives with copious home movies, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is able to sift through their material looking for clues. Yet what emerges is more surreal than fiction: the youngest Friedman son went to jail, the eldest became a birthday-party clown. In the end, we can't be sure whether Arnold Friedman is a monstrous child molester or the victim of railroading. The portrait of a disconnected family is deeply disturbing, either way, and this film is further proof that a documentary can be just as spellbinding as anything a great storyteller dreams up. --Robert Horton
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