Academy Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Feature Documentary
American Cinema Editors Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Edited Documentary
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2003 - Won - Best Documentary
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2003 - Won - Best New Filmmaker
Academy Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Feature Documentary
American Cinema Editors Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Edited Documentary
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2003 - Won - Best Documentary
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2003 - Won - Best New Filmmaker
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2003 - Won - Best Documentary
Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Won - Best Documentary
Directors Guild of America Awards 2004 - Nominated - Outstanding Direction of a Documentary
International Documentary Association Awards 2003 - Nominated - Best Feature Documentary
National Board of Review Awards 2004 - Won - Freedom of Expression Award
News and Documentary Emmy Awards 2005 - Won - Best Editing
NYFCC Awards 2003 - Won - Best Non-fiction Film
Sundance Film Festival 2003 - Won - Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)
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Film SynopsisOscar nominated for Best Documentary 2003 and Winner of the Grand Jury prize in the Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2003. Capturing the Friedmans is a non-fiction feature film that explores the elusive nature of truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history. Get Involved |
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memberRuntime:
107 min.
Genre:
Documentary
Country:
UNITED STATES
Language:
English/American
Color:
Color
Plot Summary
The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award-winning schoolteacher, his wife Elaine, a homemaker. Together, they raise their three boys in the affluent Long Island town of Great Neck. One Thanksgiving, the family is gathered at home preparing for a quiet holiday dinner. In an instant, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush into the house searching every corner, seizing boxes of the family's possessions. Arnold and his 18-year old son Jesse are both arrested, and subsequently indicted for hundreds of shocking crimes. The film follows their story - from the public's perspective and, most remarkably, through unique footage of the family in crisis, shot contemporaneously by family members inside the Friedman house.
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Directed by
Andrew Jarecki
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