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| Mukunda Angulo | ... | Self | |
| Narayana Angulo | ... | Self | |
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Susanne Angulo | ... | Self |
| Bhagavan Angulo | ... | Self | |
| Jagadisa Angulo | ... | Self | |
| Krsna Angulo | ... | Self | |
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Oscar Angulo | ... | Self |
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Visnu Angulo | ... | Self |
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Chloe Pecorino | ... | Self |
| Govinda Angulo | ... | Self | |
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Ned Shatzer | ... | Self |
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,' the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers decides to revisit the outside world and everything changes. Written by Anonymous
The six Angulo boys, their sister and their mother live in a low-income New York City apartment with their father, Oscar Angulo, who won't let them go outside. Well, some years they get to leave their apartment and some years they don't. They are home schooled, which in the case of these kids, means watching movies all day, transcribing the scripts and then filming their own versions. These feral, Peruvian John Travolta looking teenagers have probably seen Pulp Fiction fifty times, though they most certainly prefer Reservoir Dogs. Normality, to them, is film. The world they find in film is inspiring, and, coupled with the natural tendency of the captured to escape, they break out, running down the streets of Manhattan, only to be chased down by budding documentary filmmaker, Crystal Moselle. The film begins there. Although the documentary disregards some major questions around the reasons for entrapment and isolation, the boys are fascinating and their impact is lasting. This film inspires the big dreamers; those who are looking to break their shackles.