The Home Horror Movie:

Questions for Jesse Friedman:

“You were thrust into the spotlight recently when Capturing the Friedmans, the documentary movie about your family and the conviction of you and your father on charges of sexually abusing students who came to your house, had its premiere in New York. How is all this sudden attention sitting with you?” NY Times Magazine

CtF was one of the most devastating films I’ve seen in a long time. It is not really about a pedophile as much as a graphic examination of how failures of community morés, family cohesiveness and judicial protections can erupt spontaneously in a sad, sick society.