Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Arnold Friedman	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Elaine Friedman	...	Herself (also archive footage)
	David Friedman	...	Himself (also archive footage)
	Seth Friedman	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Jesse Friedman	...	Himself (also archive footage)
	John McDermott	...	Himself
	Frances Galasso	...	Herself (as Det. Frances Galasso)
	Anthony Sgeugloi	...	Himself
	Chuck Scarborough	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Joseph Onorato	...	Himself
	Judd Maltin	...	Himself
	Howard Friedman	...	Himself
	Abbey Boklan	...	Herself (as Judge Abbey Boklan)
	Ron Georgalis	...	Himself
	Scott Banks	...	Himself

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In the late 1980's, the Friedmans - father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman, mother and housewife Elaine Friedman, and their three grown sons, David Friedman, Seth Friedman and Jesse Friedman - 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... Written by Huggo  

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