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75
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75
Critics' score based on 12 reviews.
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This is an absolute gem of a film. The story is impossible to forget. I saw it on this web site for $2.99: www.giganticdigital.com

March 04,2009
indiejilly

One of the best documentaries I've seen in years!!

March 04,2009
johncase2
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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.Full Review

Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times

What an anguished story it tells, of a marriage from hell.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Dews perhaps makes too much of the notion that Allis was a woman out of her time a feminist precursor. This is too sociological a formulation for such a patently psychological crisis.Full Review

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

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."Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

The secrets revealed here are not quite as shocking as the hints of child molestation captured in "Friedmans." Still, this is an equally intriguing and unsettling look at the turmoil hidden behind the white picket fences of suburbia.Full Review

Stephen Farber
The Hollywood Reporter
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