Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Capturing the Friedmans [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures presents a film by Andrew Jarecki ; producers, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling ; directed by Andrew Jarecki.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : HBO Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004], c2003.

Description:

2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The Friedman's seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold and his son Jesse with hundreds of shocking crimes. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate, revealing questions about justice, family and finally the truth.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Criminals -- New York (State) -- Great Neck.

Sex crimes.

Criminal investigation -- New York (State) -- Great Neck.

Child pornography.

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Jarecki, Andrew.

Smerling, Marc.

Friedman, Jesse.

Friedman, Arnold, 1931-1995.

Friedman, Elaine.

Friedman, David.

Friedman, Seth.

Friedman, Howard.

McDermott, John, 1963-

Galasso, Frances.

Onorato, Joseph.

Doring, Adolfo.

Hankin, Richard.

Morricone, Andrea.

Magnolia Pictures (Firm)

HBO Video (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by Andrew Jarecki ; Disc 2: unseen home movies from the Friedman house after the police arrived; an altercation at the New York premiere; the original short film that led to the discovery of David Friedman's secret story; Great Neck outraged; new witnesses & evidence; uncut footage of the prosecution's star witness; Friedman family scrapbook and hidden audio tape; Jesse's life story; the judge speaks out at the Great Neck premiere.

Director of photography, Adolfo Doring ; editor, Richard Hankin ; music, Andrea Morricone.

Jesse Friedman, Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Howard Friedman, John McDermott, Frances Galasso, Joseph Onorato.

DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.

Sundance Film Festival, 2003: Grand Jury Prize - Documentary (Andrew Jarecki).

ISBN:

0783128959

Publisher Number:

92278

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

133757

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 364.373 Capturin

Medium:

[videorecording]