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	IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 from 15,195 votes
	Release: 2003 / Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
	Genre: Documentary \| Biography
	Director: Andrew Jarecki
	Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman
	Synopsis: In the late 1980's, the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher , mother and housewife , and their three grown sons, , and - of Great Neck, Long Island, are seemingly your typical middle class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious - Arnold and Elaine eventually got divorced - but the sons talk of their father, while also not being always there for them, as being a good man. This façade of respectability masks the fact that Arnold was buying and distributing child pornography. Following a sting operation to confirm this fact, the authorities began to investigate Arnold for sexual abuse of the minor-aged male students of his computer classes, which he held in the basement of the family home. Based on interviews with the students, not only was Arnold charged with and ultimately convicted of multiple counts of sodomy and sexual abuse of these ...