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Release Date: 29 July, 2003 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $12.47 You SAVE: $12.48! Cast: |
Brother's Keeper Reviews
Excellent Documentary in the Maysles Tradition
That this film is dedicated to the memory of David Maysles should tell you all you need to know about what's in store. Along with his brother Albert, David Maysles created some of the most groundbreaking and fascinating documentaries of the 60's and 70's ("Gimme Shelter," "Salesman," "Grey Gardens"), and Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky did a fabulous job here of carrying on the stylistic tradition. The story of the poor and semi-literate Ward brothers is touching and engrossing, despite the squalor in which they lived, and this early 90's legal case is a significant study in cultural assumptions and regional justice. Absorbing, and worth owning.
This 10th anniversary edition packs on a host of extras, but just an FYI: The "Product Detail" here on Amazon that suggests that this 'stars' Connie Chung is wildly inaccurate; she did a piece on the Ward brothers which we see them watching on a TV for a couple of minutes, and that's all. She never physically appears in this film.
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A documentary about four VERY strange brothers in upstate New York. One died in bed and the other one who shared that bed was accused of his murder. From then on, the film focuses on how the local community rallies around the remaining three, and raises money for the accused brother's defense. The movie never really resolves his innocence, but that is not what is important to the documentary. What is important is showing that rural America supports its own, no matter how bizarre. Delbert Ward, the accused, had such very sad eyes.
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