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Capturing the Friedmans

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Documentary
Release Date:May 30, 2003
Running time:107 minutes
Cast:Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman
Director:Andrew Jarecki
Producer:Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling
Distributor:Magnolia

Description: The Friedmans are a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Caught up in hysteria and with their community in an uproar, the family undergoes a media onslaught. The film inquires not just into the life of a family but into a community, a legal system, and an era.

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