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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 23, 2009
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Vanguard Cinema
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Nonny De La Pena |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
A compelling documentary about a miscarriage of justice.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
A terrific documentary.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 5/5 --
A powerful documentary to refute those who would claim that homophobia's a dead issue.
New Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Sheds light on some limitations in our legal system and how a little prejudice can go a long way. You get the sense of helplessness and frustration the Matthew's lived with...a compelling documentary.
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TheMovieChicks.com
Rating: 4/5 --
An eye-opening look at the possibility of an accused pedophile's innocence ... it is a compelling caution against quick judgements made without benefit of all the facts
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/5 --
The story of Melvin and Stephen Matthews is one that deserved to be told. Unfortunately, the manner of its telling by writer-director Nonny de la Pena is almost as inadequate as the US justice system the two men confronted.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 3/4 --
The finest element in de la Pena's carefully assembled account is how she doesn't simply state the obvious, but lets the meaty facts speak for themselves.
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San Francisco Examiner
Product Description:
THE JAUNDICED EYE is an investigative documentary that traces the painful appeal of a Michigan man, Melvin Matthews, who served ten years prison time for supposedly abusing his son. As the film unfolds, we learn that his wife was shattered to discover that after divorcing her, he came out as a homosexual. The resulting battle challenges standard notions of homophobia, as well as confronting the issue of parents using children as a weapon to harm each other.
Description by Vanguard International Cinema:
This harrowing documentary chronicles the decade long trials and emotional traumas incurred by a gay Michigan man, Stephen Matthews and his father, Melvin Matthews, who were wrongfully accused by Stephen's ex-girlfriend and her husband of molesting Stephen's son. Despite no physical evidence both Stephen and Melvin were wrongfully sentenced to 35 years in prison. A movie that serves as a terrifying example of injustice carried out by a society of legal labyrinths armed with flawed science and age old bias against sexual orientations. DVD Extras!
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Product Info
- UPC: 658769211535
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