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Wednesday, August 06, 2003
MOVIE REVIEW: CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS (2003) * * * (3 stars out of 4).
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This compelling documentary certainly leaves the viewer with more questions than answers. In the early 1980s, the Friedman family was one of the first to buy a video camera. By coincidence, at this same time, while they were constantly playing with their brand new toy by filming all the time, the father and one of the sons were accused of sodomizing children. The result is an amazing record of what this family experienced at the time. Combined with new testimony by the witnesses, law enforcement officials, and other people involved at the time, the film raises deep questions about the guilt or innocence of the parties, which are not simple to answer one way or the other. The presentation is very even-handed, presenting the very best evidence for both sides.
While the film is simply extraordinary as an artifact of history or of sociology, it drags a little at times as a work of mass entertainment. It really could have been a little shorter, and still been every bit as effective on every level. Even so, the film is very compelling and extremely watchable and very, very sad, whether they were guilty or not.
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