Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 17, 2019
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Oscilloscope
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kurt Kuenne | |
Directed by | Kurt Kuenne |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Tense, twisting crime docu is deeply disturbing.
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Common Sense Media
It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne's incendiary cri de coeur, DEAR ZACHARY....At once a personal documentary about the murder of his best friend and a polemical rant against the Canadian justice system for coddling a dangerous sociopath, it wants to provoke outrage.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
An uneven yet frequently heartbreaking documentary...
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Reel Film Reviews
Dear Zachary earns its right to engage us on a primal level, but it comes on the heels of so many films that don't, movies that...prey on modern fears and inflate third-rate material to the plane of tragedy.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 3/4 --
A four-handkerchief documentary if there ever was one.
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New York Post
Rating: 4/5 --
It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne's incendiary cri de coeur, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding.
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Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER is not for the faint of heart. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's excruciatingly powerful documentary begins as a memorial to a lost friend, Andrew Bagby, who was brutally murdered in 2001 by a crazed ex-girlfriend. Yet as Kuenne traveled the globe to interview friends and family of the beloved young doctor, Bagby's killer, Shirley Turner, fled to Newfoundland to escape arrest. Under the backwards protection of the Canadian law, she was allowed to remain free; during that time, she revealed that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. Knowing that this woman was responsible for their son's death, David and Kathleen Bagby nonetheless moved to Newfoundland in order to be closer to their grandson. And that's when things got even worse.
With DEAR ZACHARY, Kuenne has fashioned one of the more unusual, and devastating, documentaries of recent memory. It is a deeply personal home video memoir, a true crime thriller, an impassioned plea for judicial reform, and an ode to two of the most heroic, loving parents the screen has ever seen. Each of these, on its own terms, makes the film a striking success, but when they are seamlessly woven together into one narrative, it becomes something much more stunning. DEAR ZACHARY is painful viewing, but it is also nonfiction filmmaking at its most vital and important.
With DEAR ZACHARY, Kuenne has fashioned one of the more unusual, and devastating, documentaries of recent memory. It is a deeply personal home video memoir, a true crime thriller, an impassioned plea for judicial reform, and an ode to two of the most heroic, loving parents the screen has ever seen. Each of these, on its own terms, makes the film a striking success, but when they are seamlessly woven together into one narrative, it becomes something much more stunning. DEAR ZACHARY is painful viewing, but it is also nonfiction filmmaking at its most vital and important.
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