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Official
Site: CapturingTheFriedmans.com
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Distributed by: Magnolia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 30, 2003 (NY)
This documentary "captures" the experience of a family in
crisis, through the actual home video movies of the Friedmans, a
seemingly average upper-middle-class Jewish family in Great Neck, NY
whose world was changed disastrously when the father and son were
charged with horrible crimes of child molestation in 1987. In the 1980s,
Arnold Friedman was a high school science teacher who taught elementary
school children computer classes in his home where his wife also ran a
toddler childcare group, which made him one of the first teachers to
establish a computer education curriculum for children that young. Their
lives changed, however, when the U.S. Postal Service began investigating
Arnold and his family, which led to the eventual charges that he and his
18-year-old son Jesse had committed dozens of acts of a sexual nature.
The media saturated the airwaves with coverage of the event, but some of
the best footage was shot by the family themselves... which is seen
publicly for the first time in this documentary.
Cast:
Arnold Friedman,
Elaine Friedman,
Jesse Friedman,
David Friedman
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