Capturing the Friedmans

There’s nothing more exciting than a thought-provoking documentary, right? Hey, come back! Capturing the Friedmans investigates the dark events that tore apart a suburban Long Island family by digging up a 15-year-old child molestation case with more holes than 50 Cent’s abdomen. The gripping movie raises endless questions about the legitimacy of the ruling that sent Arnold Friedman (an admitted pedophile, who was the father of the family) and his son Jesse to prison for multiple counts of child molestation, and the extras only reveal more inconsistencies. Case details include threatening answering machine messages from outraged neighbors, attempted drive-bys on the defense lawyer’s office, and even plans to kill Arnold and make it look like an accident. See how Jesse has rebounded since his release in 2001 and get plenty of unused footage of the rest of the family—including the clown documentary (profiling one of the innocent sons) that was a precursor to Capturing the Friedmans. It’s more than enough to make your family appear normal.