Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.
Lucille Louise
- Baby Jeff Dahmer
- (as Lucille Louise Scanlon)
Frankie Kranz
- Victim No. 1
- (as Frank Krainz)
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- TriviaThe film takes place in 1960, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1988 and 1991.
- GoofsWhen Lionel returns to his mother's house, he turns on the television to see his son, Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot on the news. In the mugshot, he has a handlebar mustache without glasses. This is a mugshot from his 1986 arrest (another mugshot from 1982 has him with the handlebar mustache with glasses, both arrests for indecent exposure). When Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for murder in 1991, he did not have a mustache in his mugshot, and wore a windbreaker jacket.
- ConnectionsVersion of The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993)
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Has it's moments, but disappointing overall
One would assume that a movie named "Raising Jeffrey Dahmer" would deal largely with his childhood. Instead, the movie begins with his arrest and deals largely with the stress of his parents face trying to deal with the media. There are flashbacks to childhood events, but they are short, stylized, and presented out of chronological order. They are more distracting and confusing than they are enlightening. The step-mother is played in a very distant, emotionless manner that makes it impossible to determine what she is going through and difficult to sympathize with her. The father spends most of the film being shown reacting to discoveries and incidents so we do not have an opportunity to get close to him either. His emotional range was too one-dimensional to get a clear picture of who he really is as a person. The movie is somewhat interesting, but it didn't live up to it's potential. I expected to see Jeffrey raised through childhood complete with all the clues and hints about how he might turn out. I expected to see a film that puts us in the place of the parents and allows us to feel the struggle between a parents unconditional love for a child and reconciling the horrible crimes committed by the child. I would have enjoyed this as a straight documentary or as a revealing, emotional docudrama. Instead, the director chose to focus on being artsy. I didn't hate this film, but I was left very disappointed.
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- whitefangz1
- Jun 26, 2008
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- Budget
- $250,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006) officially released in Canada in English?
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