Must Read After My Death
About this movie
- Synopsis
- Assembled from 300 pages of official transcripts, 50 hours of audio diaries and Dictaphone records, and 201 home movies left behind by the free-thinking mother who railed against convention, director Morgan Dews' intimate documentary follows the ......
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- Director(s)
- Morgan Dews
- Distributor(s)
- Gigantic Releasing
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 74 min.
Critic Reviews
At its heart, and there is a great heart to be discovered here, Morgan Dews' documentary Must Read After My Death is a searing and intimate account of an unconventional woman struggling not to lose her identity or her sanity in the rigid 1950s suburban world of stay-at-home moms, well-behaved children and sparkling-clean houses.Read the full review
What an anguished story it tells, of a marriage from hell.Read the full review
Did granny intend this stuff for strangers? We'll never know. File this ''therapeutic'' movie, well made and creepy, on the dysfunction-as-art shelf next to "Capturing the Friedmans."Read the full review
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Massawyrm on MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH and the age of simultaneous digital distribution!
02/20/09 With technology finally reaching the ability to stream high quality content instantaneously and an entire generation of consumers ready and willing to gobble up their content at home and on their computers, we knew that someone would finally begin offering feature films online on the day of release. | Ain't It Cool News -
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02/20/09 Moviefone Must Read After My Death (pictured) is a personal documentary by Morgan Daws in which he uses old Dictaphone recordings, home movies, and photographs to tell his family's story, including details he never knew until after his grandmother died. | Cinematical.com -
Film: Review: Must Read After My Death
02/19/09 Largely because of the movies, the era from the end of World War II to the assassination of John F. Kennedy has a reputation for being idyllic and clean, full of pressed clothes and pleasant attitudes. | The A.V. Club -
Must Read After My Death
02/15/09 In the 1950's and '60s Allis made over 200 8mm home movies of her happy life family. | Rotten Tomatoes