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Capturing the Friedmans: In the 80's, in the upper-middleclass district of Great Neck, the awarded Professor Arnold Friedman is arrested for possession of some magazines of child pornography. A further investigation of the police discloses that apparently Arnold and his eighteen years old son Jesse molested his young students during their private computer class. Their Jewish family tears apart with the situation and the sentences of Arnold and Jesse.

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Released: January 17, 2003
Runtime: 107 mins
Genres: Documentary Crime Mystery Biography
Countries: USA
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Actors: Chuck Scarborough David Friedman John McDermott Larry King
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Posted by mrwonderful1985 4 days ago
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what a movie makes me feel lucky to have such a great life I give it a 5 out of 10 stars

Posted by alvawalsh 3 months ago
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Really interesting documentary.The brothers are in total denial of the whole thing and attack their mother as a way of dealing it I think. Also there is never smoke without fire in these kinds of cases. Police don't just go knocking on random peoples houses to accuse them of having child porn! your name is popping up somewhere on more than one occasion! You don't just stumble across that you have to go looking for it!

Posted by thumbisup 4 months ago
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have way??HAVE WAY??no disrespect but thats what really spoiled the review for me.

Posted by chanelicia 5 months ago
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It's a frightening burden for anyone to bear, my sympathies for the wife, I couldn't watch the whole thing, felt sick...

Posted by clappingforyou 6 months ago
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Really unfortunate what happened to this family. I also feel bad for the mother; all of her children turned against her when she thought she was doing the right thing and she knew best for Arnold and Jesse.

Posted by EraseTheHate 6 months ago
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Really great documentary. Very sad. Disturbing story. This is definetly worth seeing.

Posted by baymatt 8 months ago ( Edited 8 months ago )
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By the way, this movie is on youtube. If you're like me, some of these sites are hit or miss with the buffering. This was an excellent doc. Very disturbing though. One thing that struck me as interesting was how the one brother videotaped a lot of the drama surrounding the trial with the parents' (most likely because of his age) video camera. It was probably seen as strange in the '80s, but these days it's common practice to document things in such a way. Also showed how even early computers had pornographic "programs" that people played/watched/whatever. And I thought dot coms were when porn was introduced to the net, lol. Anyway, the father in this movie was a sicko, and I think Jesse was too...on youtube it shows how information was left out of this documentary. Check that out if you're interested...I don't know what to score this doc., I just know it made me think.

Posted by DBSKx 8 months ago ( Edited 8 months ago )
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Why did they gange up on the mother ! I really felt sorry for her. The whole case is just very confusing, I don't know what to make of it honestly.

Posted by kokotye157 1 year, 4 months ago
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wow....such dysfunction in this family. I agree with lawless regarding dark secrets and the denial is almost comical. great documentary.....i wonder who is going to spill the truth in a tell all in 20 years....9

Posted by The_X 1 year, 10 months ago
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loved it! I highly recommend ! Totally imparcial...the viewer take his own conclusions....

Posted by roch20 1 year, 11 months ago
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Jesse was a victim, I feel very bad for him; also the mother, she's a lady with class; but David, he has been horrible with his mother, unfairly, but in these circumstances, who knows what else could they do? He (David) loved his father but at the same time, he was blinded by this love, so I think he felt bad for him, and though I can understand his frustration, I am afraid that I can't understand such cruelty toward his mother , he was brutal, in my opinion, that was unfair!

Posted by lawless 1 year, 12 months ago
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I think Jesse was more involved than he admitted to. I also think that a lot of family background was left out, the mother clearly says she doesn't want to talk about it. That's a family with dark secrets...

Posted by lichtschein 2 years ago
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I cried. That story (no matter who told the truth) was moving.

Posted by boihorror80 9 months ago
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One Of The Best Doc Ever Made, You Watch It And Your Still Confused What Really Happened, Sad !!

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Posted by limon8820 6 months ago
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CONTAINS SPOILERS...It was boring and sick! The dad and son definitly were guilty and I think the mom knew the whole time what was happening in her home, but did nothing while it was going on. If the dad had those magazines sitting out? Office or not, she had to have seen them. I like how she was OKAY with him having molested one boy, but two just put her over the edge and she was shocked he had lied to her. Disgusting! If I was with someone and they said it happened at all........realtionship OVER. There is no excuse for it. The family is fucked up and now the kid Jessie is a predator on the loose as well. Plus, if yout family had been accused and found guilty of molesting kids, would you grow up to be a 40 year old birthday clown working with kids and living in a run down apartment full of wigs and makeup? That is some horror movie shit waiting to happen right there. Everyone in that family is lying. How sick was it when the lawyer told the story about moving tables cuz Arnie was getting turned on by a toddler bouncing on his dads leg? Eww, I am not impressed I watched this and they can all burn in hell.

Posted by clara_g20 4 months ago ( Edited 4 months ago )
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THIS IS CONTAINS SPOILERS SORRY HAD TO WRITE IT Basically I stopped have way through so I could write this ...Mr friedman is guilty of having child pornography which is a crime I dont think he raped his students in the class the one student who said he doid does not have his story together ...The mother is being victimised by the family but I dont think we r seeing the whole picture ...But seriously mr friendmans brother is getting so upset about how he cant belive he would ever do this and it cant belive wen heis brother admitted to having sex with him when he was eight on more then one occasion just because he cant remember it does not mean it okay ...OMG this is seriously wrecking my head I dont know who to belive !! EDit : I also found a lot of the filming to be fake and staged on pupose between the sons ...And seriously a 4o year old clown in a family with two men who have been convicted of interfering with children not right < but thats just my judgemental side

Posted by GOREQUEEN 9 months ago
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I remember when this happened, Me being from LI, NY what a bunch of wacko's..literally good doc!

Posted by blacknwhiteworld 6 months ago
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For those who seem to come to a conclusion after watching this film, you don't know everything about this film to come to a judgement of "who's tell the truth". This film casts a doubt on the trail and their judgement sure but they left out certain facts about the case like there was another person who was convicted along with the Friedmans that testified against them, Ross Goldstein. Also the director of the film only interview 2 ppl and didn't bother contacting the other students about their opinion. Jesse also did an interview while in prison about the child abuse, the rivera interview where he described in detail about the abuse he committed........so do research before jumping to a conclusion....

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