Catfish (2010)

Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.

Directors:

Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Stars:

Yaniv Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Yaniv Schulman	...	Himself (as Yaniv 'Nev' Schulman)
Ariel Schulman	...	Himself (as Ariel 'Rel' Schulman)
Henry Joost	...	Himself
Angela Wesselman-Pierce	...	Herself (as Angela Wesselman)
Melody C. Roscher	...	Herself
Wendy Whelan	...	Dancer: Morphoses
Craig Hall	...	Dancer: Morphoses
Tiler Peck	...	Dancer: Morphoses
Drew Jacoby	...	Dancer: Morphoses
Rubi Pronk	...	Dancer: Morphoses
Adrian Danchig-Waring	...	Dancer: Morphoses

Storyline

In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.

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Plot Keywords:

filmmaker | painting | photograph | michigan | photographer | 

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Taglines:

Don't let anyone tell you what it is.

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Genres:

Documentary | Mystery

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some sexual references

Details

Official Sites:

Rogue [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 December 2010 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Sum

Filming Locations:

Michigan, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$257,285 (USA) (17 September 2010)

Gross:

$3,234,373 (USA) (26 November 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Supermarché, Hit The Ground Running Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of Angela's and Megan's "real" friends on Facebook who shared songs and advice turned out to also be a fictional character called Denton Rose who won America's Dream Date as a fictional character in 2006. The character appeared on Fox, and the WSJ and was offered the lead role in a DreamWorks film.

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Quotes

Yaniv Schulman: [First lines] If this is your documentary, you're doing a bad job.
Ariel Schulman: Why?
Yaniv Schulman: Because you're catching me when I don't want to talk about things.
Ariel Schulman: How should we do it?
Yaniv Schulman: Set it up, organise a time with me, put together some materials, emails, we'll get the Facebook conversations printed out and we'll really talk about it.

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Crazy Credits

The opening logos are recorded off a computer (specifically a Mac). The Universal logo is shown as someone using Google Earth. The Relativity Media logo is shown as if it was an online video. The Rogue Pictures logo is shown as a desktop icon.

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Connections

Featured in 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die: Life After Donkey Kong (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Saint European King Days"
Written by Ervin Trofimov & Erkki Hobe
Performed by Opium Flirt
Published by Opium Flirt
Courtesy of Opium Flirt Records

User Reviews

In real life?

The story of a man befriended on Facebook by someone posing under a fake identity sounds as if it should be a story of our times. But there are problems with 'Catfish', not least because the story is filmed as it happens, the victim is the brother of the film-maker, and so one can't entirely trust that his own behaviour is entirely genuine, or at least, uninfluenced by his desire to produce material for his brother. Indeed, the whole film has a sort of student-project feel to it, and the eventual truth is sad and predictable, not particularly interesting, and there's a kind of uneasy sympathy for the perpetrator, who is treated gently but of course, also very publicly exposed. There's no real questioning, on the other hand, of the motives of those on the other side. There must be better stories lurking on the internet than this one.