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	IMDb user comments for Capturing the Friedmans (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The documentary Capturing the Friedmans is a dark and disturbing look at the Friedman family (Arnold, sons David, Jessie, Seth and their mother Elaine) that compels us to sift through the ambiguous evidence and determine for ourselves the question of their guilt or innocence.
		Because the Friedmans' sons were obsessed with videotaping the events of their lives, the filmmakers had a plethora of highly revealing clips to choose from in weaving their grim but insightful tapestry.
		Capturing The Friedmans is a fascinating character study and a devastating one to watch.
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	David Friedman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the children's entertainer David Friedman whose family was involved with allegations of child abuse, see (additional info and facts about Capturing the Friedmans) Capturing the Friedmans.
		David D. Friedman (born 1945), is a (Someone who believes the doctrine of free will) libertarian writer who became a leading figure in (additional info and facts about Anarcho-capitalism) Anarcho-capitalism with the publication of his book (additional info and facts about The Machinery of Freedom) The Machinery of Freedom.
		David Friedman is the son of (An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace) Nobel Prize-winning economist (United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born 1912)) Milton Friedman.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/david_friedman.htm (261 words)

	Jesse Friedman's Web Site \| New Yorker Review \| Capturing The Friedmans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the five Friedmans (father, mother, and three sons), their sense of themselves as a family was central to what was at stake for them as individuals during the crisis.
		And he may have wanted to capture what he considered a betrayal: the refusal of his mother to support her husband (who pleaded guilty on some counts) and then her insistence that Jesse, who claimed innocence, plead guilty, too, so as to avoid the maximum sentence.
		“Capturing the Friedmans,” made with assistance from HBO and many angels, is his first feature-length film, a work that nevertheless demonstrates the audacity, the evenhandedness, the sense of detail and structural power worthy of such accomplished documentary filmmakers as Marcel Ophuls and Frederick Wiseman.
	www.freejesse.net /nyr/NYR.htm (1305 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Capturing the Friedmans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jesse Friedman, who was 18 at the time of his indictment, pleaded Not Guilty and his case went to trial. He eventually changed his plea to Guilty, and at the age of 19 received a six-to-eighteen year sentence.
		Capturing the Friedmans is presented in a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1, and has been anamorphically enhanced for your widescreen-viewing pleasure.
		Capturing the Friedmans is a powerhouse of a documentary that will chill and puzzle you, but there is no mistaking the skill that went into producing the film.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?id=9287 (2199 words)

	Capturing The Friedmans
		It follows a Jewish family, the Friedmans of the title, whose suburban lives are gradually torn apart by allegations of child abuse against the father and one of the three sons.
		Capturing The Friedmans won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and presents a fascinating story, compellingly dissecting the evidence of the case.
		As a result Capturing The Friedmans fails to fully engage, and is an unpleasant, harrowing experience.
	www.musicomh.com /films/capturing.htm (402 words)

	His Father's Son - The haunted men of Capturing the Friedmans. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Capturing the Friedmans delivers its information in teasing dribs and drabs and never allows Nathan (or anyone else with much perspective) to attempt an objective summary of the catastrophe.
		Jesse Friedman is another matter, and much of the horror of Capturing the Friedmans revolves around the alleged complicity of the youngest son.
		There is at least one moment in Capturing the Friedmans that eats at me. The morning of Jesse's sentencing, prosecutors watched from their windows as his brothers videotaped him outside the courthouse.
	slate.msn.com /id/2084025 (1464 words)

	Capturing The Friedmans
		In another way, they are captured by the hysteria of a community that is enraptured by the possibility of what one person in the film calls 'the most evil crime of all'.
		Most importantly the Friedmans are captured by each other, by their family bonds that stubbornly hold them together, by their needs to fall apart, and finally by their own home video camera.
		Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary that combines interview, news footage, and home video to tell the story of a family under exceptional circumstances.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /june_2003/friedmans.html (780 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS documentary movie by Andrew Jarecki with Arnold Friedman, Elaine ...
		What seems to be the point of "Capturing the Friedmans," a documentary look at a Long Island family being railroaded into prison over child-molestation charges, may not be the point at all.
		But the Friedman parents' bonds were shaky all their lives, and their chronicle is one of sniping, sobbing and shouting rather than cooperating.
		"Capturing the Friedmans" is illuminating, in spots, about what happens to ordinary people once they're caught in a prosecutor's sights; but it also panders to a reality-TV audience for whom any personal agony is fit to be made public in the name of an evening's entertainment.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/friedmans.php (798 words)

	Case of Arnold and Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans)
		Friedman and his son Jesse, 18, of 17 Picadilly Rd., Great Neck, were charged in December in a 54-count indictment in which they were accused of sexually abusing five boys aged 8 to 11 and endangering the welfare of a child.
		Friedman's son, Jesse Friedman, who faces multiple counts of sodomy, sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and using a child in a sexual performance, is awaiting trial.
		Friedman's tears and the tale of his sexual abuse at the hands of his father, Arnold Friedman prompted only the smallest bit of sympathy from the parents whose own sons are in therapy, trying to deal with scars inflicted by the defendant.
	www.theawarenesscenter.org /arnoldandjessefriedman.html (16619 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Capturing the Friedmans
		The Friedman family's once disturbing desire to record themselves at all times provides Jarecki with a treasure trove of archival footage, which he expertly combines with present-day interviews and TV news coverage from the time period.
		Sixty-five-year-old Howard Friedman defends his brother Arnold throughout the film and claims that they didn't share an incestuous relationship when he was eight and Arnold was in his early teens.
		Capturing the Friedmans truly evokes the family unit as a machine in constant need of oiling.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=686 (710 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
		Examining the 1987 case of the Friedmans in Great Neck, Long Island, Capturing the Friedmans is possible because of the existence of hundreds of hours of home movies made by the Friedmans themselves.
		Capturing the Friedmans is fascinating more for the questions it uncovers about the generally accepted version of events.
		What emerges is that the Friedmans are guilty of something, but almost certainly not guilty of everything they were accused of, and there may be at least a reasonable doubt as to Jesse's guilt.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/c/capturingthefriedmans.htm (1372 words)

	Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Movie Review
		Capturing the Friedmans is something of an American tragedy, an example of a family imploding under the weight of the members' acts.
		Capturing the Friedmans is made up of many interviews, with neighbors, co-workers, lawyers, police and family members.
		Capturing the Friedmans does not try to excuse his crimes; it just gives us a fascinating view of how those transgressions can tear a family apart.
	www.popentertainment.com /friedmans.htm (472 words)

	Capturing the Friedmans
		There's capturing in the senses of police arrest, capturing via the many cameras pointed over generations and capturing as in finding the essence of truth.
		The David Friedman of today sits on a city stoop and professes his great admiration for his father, a man who was also an entertainer in his youth who became a respected teacher and inventor.
		Jesse Friedman discusses a youngster who filed multiple charges of sodomy as having occurred during a beginners class who reupped for an advanced class.
	www.reelingreviews.com /capturingthefriedmans.htm (652 words)

	village voice > news > Complex Persecution by Debbie Nathan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The case was widely publicized at the time, but a new documentary, Capturing the Friedmans (opening May 30), offers a more intimate portrait of this tragic clan—a Franny and Zooey-esque collection of neurotic but gentle eccentrics, at once brilliant and doomed.
		Capturing the Friedmans shows the family members convulsed by their discovery of Arnold's pedophilia and their powerlessness before the rage of the cops and community—even as they at first staunchly proclaim Arnold's and Jesse's innocence.
		In an interview for Capturing the Friedmans that did not make it into the film, a former computer student who insists the accusations were bogus nonetheless recalled that Arnold used to give boys furtive pats on their clothed legs and butts.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0321/nathan.php (3087 words)

	Capturing the Friedmans (2003): Reviews
		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.
		What's most devastating in Capturing the Friedmans is how Jarecki puts the sureness of justice into doubt as he shows Truth (with a capital T) at the mercy of perspective and perception, context and emotion.
		Above all else, though, Capturing the Friedmans is a vividly personal, devastating story of a family that was hopelessly compromised years before it was scapegoated for crimes that two of its members may or may not have committed.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/capturingthefriedmans (1553 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly: Capturing The Friedman's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Capturing the Friedmans re-opens our eyes to the notorious Friedman family case of the late ’80s.
		In 1987, retired school teacher Arnold Friedman and his 18-year-old son, Jesse, were arrested and charged with a multitude of sexual molestation crimes against minors, including sodomy and rape.
		Capturing the Friedmans isn’t just about the actual capturing of Arnold (who killed himself a few years into his sentence) and Jesse (now working toward an economics degree after spending 13 years in prison), despite an overwhelming lack of physical evidence of their supposed crimes.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2003/06_26/cinema_screen7.html (493 words)

	Documentary Resource 2004
		Capturing the Friedmans by contrast to The Fog of War features events that took place on a far narrower canvas - the lives and times of a close knit suburban family living in a prosperous community called Great Neck on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
		It's a challenging topic for consideration in school and yet Capturing the Friedmans is well worth studying.
		It plants a large question mark against the previous legal and judicial certainties surrounding the behaviour of Arnold and Jesse Friedman and invites broader conjecture about the nature of family life and the potential hysteria attendant on crimes involving children and paedophilia.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/documentary2004/friedmans.html (234 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- 'Capturing the Friedmans' victims ask Academy to deny documentary Oscar
		"Capturing the Friedmans," by director Andrew Jarecki, is among the favorites to win best documentary at the Feb. 29 Oscar ceremony.
		It examines the cases against Arnold and Jesse Friedman, a Long Island father and son imprisoned in the late 1980s for sexually abusing dozens of children.
		However, Jesse Friedman, now 34, is seeking a new trial to overturn his conviction based on information revealed in the documentary.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040217-1908-film-denyingthefriedmans.html (528 words)

	'Capturing the Friedmans'
		Rubbernecking is an involuntary reaction to "Capturing the Friedmans," a compelling and troubling documentary about a family so dysfunctional that it makes the notion of the Osbournes turning into the Osmonds seem like a reality show instead of a commercial.
		Arnold Friedman, a respected Long Island schoolteacher with a wife and three sons, lived in the affluent suburb of Great Neck.
		But even viewers who end up disagreeing on the issue of guilt or innocence may be able to agree on the notion that the Friedmans eventually would have torn themselves apart even if there had been no charges, no arrests, not the smallest cloud of suspicion hanging over them.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20030704friedmans0704p2.asp (517 words)

	Review: Capturing the Friedmans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Various articles have labeled Capturing the Friedmans as a narrative documentary, a crime investigation, a meditation upon the nature of truth, and an expose of the failings of the United States judicial system.
		A respected Long Island teacher, Arnold Friedman, was arrested on charges of child molestation when investigators learned that participants in a computer class he conducted in his home claimed to have been sexually abused.
		Employing interviews with David and Jesse Friedman (two of Arnold's three sons; the third, Seth, declined to participate), and their mother, Elaine, as well as home movies and video taken during the course of the investigation, Jarecki has assembled a compelling documentary that questions both the investigative process and the results.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/capturing_friedmans.html (898 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews: CAUGHT ON FILM By LOU LUMENICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Arnold Friedman was caught in a post-office sting that led to a raid that netted a cache of pornographic magazines, alarmed authorities learned that he ran computer classes in his basement.
		Experts and former students interviewed by Jarecki suggest the Friedmans were the victims of mass hysteria, since the assaults were alleged to have taken place over a period of years without anybody reporting or even noticing anything.
		"Capturing the Friedmans" ends by noting that David is Manhattan's most successful party clown - though you have to wonder how much longer that's going to be true after the public sees this reality footage of a clan that makes the Osbournes seem positively normal.
	www.nypost.com /movies/58161.htm (395 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Capturing the Friedmans (2002)
		All appeared to be happy in their lives until November 1987, when police raided the Friedman home after Arnold and Jesse were accused of multiple counts of child molestation.
		As the investigation against the Friedmans went on, public opinion regarding the case became more and more heated, but not all of the testimony against Arnold and Jesse matched up, and some began to wonder just how many of the charges filed against the family had merit.
		Capturing the Friedmans received an enthusiastic reception in its screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=32118 (439 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| A suburban family in hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The day before Thanksgiving in 1987, Arnold Friedman, a mild, nebbishy science teacher, and his youngest son, Jesse, were arrested by police at their home in the affluent suburban town of Great Neck, N.Y., and charged with numerous counts of child sexual abuse.
		It's fitting that the devastating "Capturing the Friedmans," which could be said to be documentary as an act of detection, itself came about through a piece of inadvertent detection.
		"Capturing the Friedmans" includes interviews with David and Jesse (the middle son, Seth, declined to take part in the film) and their mother, Elaine, as well as police, prosecutors, the judge in the case and some of the (now grown) kids who took those computer classes.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/05/30/friedmans/index_np.html (509 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Capturing The Friedmans
		The Friedman family lived in a nice Long Island town, on Picadilly Road, and until November of 1987 seemed close to normal.
		Arnold Friedman is dead now, and his survivors are still trying to piece together his life.
		The Friedman men are bonded by their shared sense of fun, and defiantly cling to it long after others have used it against them.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/friedmans.html (955 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Capturing the Friedmans [2 Discs] [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arnold and Elaine Friedman had a normal life with their three sons until Arnold was arrested on multiple (and increasingly lurid) charges of child abuse.
		Returning to the Friedman case, an interactive dossier of Friedman-related media delves deeper into the lives and personalities of this dysfunctional American family, and "Jesse's Life Today" examines the ex-convict's relatively upbeat recovery from 13 years in prison for a crime he allegedly didn't commit.
		For example, the revelation that Arnold Friedman admitted to 2 incidents of instances where "he took liberties" with young boys when on summer vacation at his beach house, also the suggestion that he had a coercive relationship with his younger brother aged 8 when he was 11.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000SXK0Y (1681 words)

	Exonerating the Friedmans (Doubt and About)
		Jesse Friedman, meanwhile, was released from a 13 year prison term in 2001; he has to live as a registered sex offender "with an electronic monitor attached to his foot," as one news account put it, and is
		This was the Reagan era, and the Friedman case mirrored other cases of alleged ritual abuse involving Satanists and day care centers, which also involved recovered memories, claims of wild sex abuse and even ritual murders.
		Clearly, there was much to unearth about the Friedman case, and a serious documentarian might have been able to exonerate both Arnold Friedman, who committed suicide in prison, as well as his son Jesse.
	www.csicop.org /doubtandabout/friedmans (1697 words)

	Capturing the Friedmans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“Capturing the Friedmans” is real life, and its powerfulness and poignancy are therefore much greater than 99.9% of all movies.
		The eldest son, David, captured all the arguments and important moments of his family on video after his father’s arrest, and Jarecki uses this footage in the documentary.
		The images of the Friedmans when they were happy juxtaposed to the images of Arthur being arrested and David in tears are haunting.
	home.earthlink.net /~jchjch/Archives/C/capturing_the_friedmans.htm (634 words)

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