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Must Read After My Death
Gigantic Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
When a Hartford couple turns to psychiatry for help with their marriage in 1960, things quickly spiral out of control. Couples counseling, individual and group therapy and 24-hour marathon sessions ensue. Their four children suffer and are given their own psychiatrists. Pills are prescribed, people are institutionalized, shock-therapy is administered. This is an intimate story in the family’s own words, from an extraordinary collection of audio recordings and home movies, illuminating a difficult and extraordinary time. (Gigantic Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Morgan Dews
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Morgan Dews
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 20, 2009
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| RUNNING TIME: |
73 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What an anguished story it tells, of a marriage from hell.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
The secrets revealed here are not quite as shocking as the hints of child molestation captured in "Friedmans." Still, this is an equally intriguing and unsettling look at the turmoil hidden behind the white picket fences of suburbia.
80
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Intensely compelling documentary.
80
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
Watching the American nightmare of Must Read After My Death play out, it's impossible not to be both horrified and powerfully moved. Impossible as well not to feel profound admiration for the artfulness with which Dews has pieced these archival cries for help into a singular creation anyone who appreciates first rate filmmaking absolutely must see.
75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
As with "Capturing the Friedmans," the documentary is grueling to sit through. Yet the greasy, guilty thrill of being privy to your neighbors' most intimate dramas makes it impossible to stop watching.
75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
The relentless negativity in Must Read After My Death can become overwhelming at times, but it's undeniably mesmerizing.
70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Horror and social value contend for equal honors in Must Read After My Death, a frightening -- and eerily edifying -- documentary that Morgan Dews created from a family trove of photos, Dictaphone letters, audiotapes, voluminous transcripts and home movies.
60
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Dews helps Allis hold out a gendered posthumous snapshot of an era whose smug surface, barely masking oceans of suffering, makes "Revolutionary Road" look like a tea party.
60
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
An alternately fascinating and disquietingly intimate portrait of a 1960s American family falling apart.
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