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8.1/10   968 votes
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Director:
Frederick Wiseman
Contact:
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Release Date:
4 September 1992 (Australia) more
Tagline:
Don't turn your back on this film... if you value your mind or your life.
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
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User Comments:
The most disturbing film I've ever seen. more

Additional Details

Runtime:
84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Unrated | Australia:M | USA:(Banned) (distribution blocked by legal order, 1967-1992)

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Trivia:
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. more
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Referenced in Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) more

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10 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
The most disturbing film I've ever seen., 6 March 2002
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Author: miloc from Bronx, New York

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.

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