Capturing the Friedmans (2-DVD)

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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 27, 2004
  • Originally Released: 2003
  • Label: Hbo Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,751
...Not since MEMENTO has a movie served up such a provocative mind-bender...
USA Today
Jun 13, 2003
Rating: 5/5 -- Watching this remarkable production is like going on safari to that creepy world. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't, not for a minute, want to live there.
Orlando Sentinel
Jul 23, 2003
...Disturbing and haunting....The film is an instructive lesson about the elusiveness of facts, especially in a legal context...
Chicago Sun-Times
Jun 6, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- It takes the concept of reality television and twists it into a shocking but poignant art form.
Arizona Republic
Jul 25, 2003
Rating: B -- Much of this information could have been delivered in a way that respected the Friedmans, even if they did not respect each other. Full Review
Looking Closer
Dec 6, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- The MPAA doesn't have a rating for queasy-making and heartbreaking. If it did, then Capturing the Friedmans would carry an advisory.
Denver Post
Jul 23, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- Without a doubt a disconcertingly engrossing, difficult-to-shake experience. Full Review
Toronto Star
Jul 25, 2003

Product Description:

Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected teacher, Elaine was a dedicated mother, and their children Seth, Jesse, and David were model students. But one Thanksgiving, that happy façade came to a crashing halt. After the local police discovered Arnold had engaged in the buying and selling of child pornography, they questioned several students who attended his computer classes in the Friedman basement. What they revealed would shock the community, and destroy the Friedman family forever. The subsequent investigation and trial uncovered even deeper hidden secrets at an alarming rate, creating a rift between Arnold and Elaine that would never be reconciled. Jarecki uses present day interviews with Elaine, Jesse, and David, as well as Arnold's brother Howard, to provide some sort of insight on the situation, but it backfires, for everyone has a different story to tell. And then there is actual home video footage of the family in the midst of the hurricane, which gives the film an eerie, voyeuristic charge.

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  • Sales Rank: 123,919
  • UPC: 026359227820
  • Shipping Weight: 0.35/lbs (approx)
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