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Capturing the Friedmans
Crime, Documentary
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to ethically complex true-crime investigations that interrogate unreliable memory, contested evidence, and the damage caused by public accusation.
- Tone
- bleak, cerebral, dread
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- abuse, family rupture, truth and memory, justice, moral ambiguity
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, middle-class suburban America and archival interview spaces
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Where to watch
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