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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767055383
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767055381
Label: New Video Group
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: New Video Group
MPN: 9542
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Video Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: New Video Group
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1992

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One of the best films of 1992, this acclaimed documentary focuses on the alleged murder in June 1990 of 64-year-old Bill Ward by his brother Delbert, 59, a simple dairy farmer whose defense became a rallying cause for the citizens of Munnsville, a tiny farming community in central New York. Known by all of Munnsville as harmless hermits, the Ward brothers (also including Lyman and Roscoe) live an 18th-century lifestyle in their tiny, grimy shack, sleeping in the same bed through cold winters and tending daily to their hayfields and livestock. Semiliterate and stunted by minimal exposure to the outside world, the Wards are disheveled children in the bodies of aging men; and when Delbert is charged with suffocating his ailing brother Bill, he's a prime target for legal manipulation and a media circus that's immediately drawn to his case. Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky spent nearly a year with the Wards and the Munnsville citizens who rallied to Delbert's defense, and their efforts prove that reality is often more compelling than even the richest fictional drama. As a slice-of-life study of eccentricity, country-folk stereotypes, small-town wisdom, and the power of the media, Brother's Keeper is funny, fascinating, and full of compassionate humanity. It's also a riveting courtroom mystery with characters that no casting director could improve upon, tracking the course of justice while leaving the viewer to mull over the truth behind Delbert Ward's alleged crime. --Jeff Shannon

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On the morning of June 6, 1990, the village of Munnsville (pop. 499) was just another forgotten corner of rural America. But in the days and months that followed, this New York farming community would become the center of one of the most celebrated and bi

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- Amazing Documentary of Three Brothers in Rural Poverty
3 brothers in rural poverty come to the attention of the authorities in rural New York after one brother dies. It comes to light that the brother was terribly ill and was smothered to death by another brother. The authorities decide to prosecute but for what reason? The three brothers were odd, outcasts from the rural community they lived in and never attended school. They took care of each other in their own way and ran a farm that allowed them to take care of their needs but illness and aging ... Read More

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- Brother's Keeper DVD is a KEEPER!
This documentary movie is touching and one of my favorites. It is a compelling documentary that tugs at the heart and you want to share it with friends. My husband and I enjoyed it tremendously!

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- An American tragedy.
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992)

The saga of the Ward Boys remains, fifteen years later, one of the outright weirdest murder cases in American history. The Ward Boys were four brothers wholived outside Munnsville, NY, a bucolic upstate town. Their lives were turned upside down when William, the oldest brother, died. His brother Adelbert was arrested for his murder. Not out of the ordinary, you say? It becomes so when you realize that Adelbert, the youngest of the ... Read More

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- Amazing
It has been a long time since a film has moved me to tears. This one did. This story of three simple brothers that may or may not be victims of the justice system moved me. As the documentary progressed, I felt myself becoming personally involved with the people. I think this documentary changed the way I look at people.

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- Meet "The Boys"
You're not likely to quickly forget the story of the Ward brothers of Munnsville, New York. This documentary chronicles their reaction to the death of one of their brothers (Bill) and the subsequent trial of another brother (Delbert) for his murder. This documentary doesn't provide an open-and-shut case of murder in a rural community, and it actually raises more questions than it answers (such as, how did the brothers come to be elderly, alone and living in total squalor?) but that's really what makes ... Read More

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