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Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
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Ratings: 7.9/10 from 11,555 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 138 user | 119 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middleclass Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Director:Andrew Jarecki |
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Arnold Friedman | ... |
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Elaine Friedman | ... |
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Seth Friedman | ... |
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Jesse Friedman | ... |
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John McDermott | ... |
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Frances Galasso | ... |
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Anthony Sgeugloi | ... |
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Chuck Scarborough | ... |
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Joseph Onorato | ... |
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Judd Maltin | ... |
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Howard Friedman | ... |
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Abbey Boklan | ... |
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Ron Georgalis | ... |
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Scott Banks | ... |
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In the late 1980's, the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman, mother and housewife Elaine Friedman, and their three grown sons, David Friedman, Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - of Great Neck, Long Island, are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine eventually got divorced - but the sons talk of their father, while also not being always there for them, as being a good man. This façade of respectability masks the fact that Arnold was buying and distributing child pornography. Following a sting operation to confirm this fact, the authorities began to investigate Arnold for sexual abuse of the minor-aged male students of his computer classes, which he held in the basement of the family home. Based on interviews with the students, not only... Written by Huggo
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A Captura dos Friedmans See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$65,154 (USA) (1 June 2003) (3 Screens)Gross:
$3,117,985 (USA) (12 October 2003)Company Credits
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Performed by Buck Owens
Written by Vonnie Morrison and Johnny Russell
Courtesy of Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) See more »
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The song played by Arnold Friedman at the piano is Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek". See more »Crazy Credits
Only the immediate members of the Friedman family (listed 1-5) arecredited in a standard cast list. The other cast members are identified
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"Act Naturally"Performed by Buck Owens
Written by Vonnie Morrison and Johnny Russell
Courtesy of Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) See more »
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