| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
Summary: A multitude of family snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments are used to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. Begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, overdoses on her lithium medication. He is shot back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, abandonment, promiscuity, drug addiction, child abuse, and psychosis. He grows up on camera and finds his escape in musical theater and B-horror movies. A look into the future shows Jonathan as he confronts the almost unbearable love he shares with his tragically damaged mother |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of World Movies channel broadcast November 17, 2007. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act. |
| Credits |
Credits: Director of photography, Jonathan Caouette ; editors, Jonathan Caouette, Brian A. Kates ; music, John Califra, Max Avery Lichtenstein |
| Cast |
Cast: Renee LeBlanc, Jonathan Caouette, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis, David Sanin Paz, Michael Cox, Dagon James |
| Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture documentary United States : Wellspring/Tarnation Films, c2003 |
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DVD |
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Winner Sutherland Tropy for most original and imaginative first feature London Film Festival |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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Rated: M |
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Family problems
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Mothers and sons
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Escape (Psychology)
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films
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| Author |
Caouette, Jonathan, 1973-
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LeBlanc, Renee
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Davis, Adolph
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Davis, Rosemary, 1927-1995
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Paz, David Sanin
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Cox, Michael, 1979-
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Califra, John
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Lichtenstein, Max Avery
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World Movies Channel (Firm)
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