Titicut Follies (1967) 7.8
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness. Director:Frederick Wiseman |
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
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schizophrenia | police brutality | stage performance | bathroom mirror | mental patient |Taglines:
Don't turn your back on this film... if you value your mind or your life.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 September 1992 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Siilipäiden revyy See more »Filming Locations:
State Prison for the Criminally Insane - 20 Administration Road, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USACompany Credits
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Doctor: Well, you'll get it here, I guess.
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The only American film banned from release for reasons other than obscenity or national security, 'Titicut Follies' was filmed inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison hospital for the criminally insane. After the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sued the filmmakers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the film constituted was an invasion of inmate privacy and ordered the withdrawal of the film from circulation. See more »Quotes
Patient: I need help, I just don't know where I can get it.Doctor: Well, you'll get it here, I guess.
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I've had the good fortune to see TITICUT FOLLIES, which for legal reasons has long been a difficult thing to do. It's an appalling, unnerving, and deeply important film. It has cut into my mind the way very few films, documentaries or otherwise, have succeeded in doing.
I urge people, documentary fans or no, to seek this out. It casts a terrible reflection on society's view of the mentally ill, and the treatment thereof. Perhaps the conditions at Titicut have improved, but I'm not sure society's attitudes have at all.