Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Directed by Andrew Jarecki
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
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But the film loses it with strained references to "Titanic," "The Blues Brothers" and even the incest documentary "Capturing the Friedmans."
The new Pegg-Frost film, like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Spaced, is crammed with gaggy allusions to movies of all kinds, from Capturing the Friedmans to Lorenzo's Oil; but the inexhaustible touchstone is Hollywood sci-fi.
Give "Paul" this much: it holds the unprecedented distinction of being the only mainstream comedy in existence with punchlines referencing the 2003 child molestation documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" and 1992's disease drama "Lorenzo's Oil."
As the town’s hysteria spreads like a contagion we’re reminded of past persecution tales, from The Children’s Hour, in which a spiteful student accuses two teachers of being lesbians (at a time when that was a much bigger deal than today), to Capturing the Friedmans, the unnerving documentary about a father and son accused of molesting computer students in their basement.
Crudely, if maybe helpfully, this drama about how a false accusation of child abuse destroys the life of a simple kindergarten worker could be dubbed The Children’s Hour meets Capturing the Friedmans.