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Boy Interrupted (2009)

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Hart Perry and Dana Perry are a couple with a background in documentary filmmaking (Hart is a cinematographer, Dana a producer and editor), and when they had a son, like many parents they spent a great deal of time recording their child's growth on film and videotape, albeit with higher-end equipment. But their son, Evan Perry, was different from most of his peers; Evan struggled with severe mood swings and emotional instability, and the couple struggled to help their child come to grips with an

Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

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Directed By: Dana Heinz Perry

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Boy Interrupted is a remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary about the life of Evan Perry, an uncommonly bright, talented boy from New York who committed suicide at age 15.

April 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Tirdad Derakhshani

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Haunting suicide/depression docu; watch with your teens.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Melissa Camacho

Common Sense Media

Not unlike Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, personal anguish here proves emotionally cathartic.

August 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Rob Humanick

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Boy, Interrupted is really one of the most intimate and heartbreaking looks inside mental illness I've seen. Dana, a filmmaker and mother tells the story of her son, Evan who battled Bi-Polar Disorder, and Depression only to end his life at the tender age of 15. So much detail and care went into the film as Dana Perry

August 21, 2009

Jason Reneau

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this is one of the best documentaries i've ever seen. by the end, you feel attached to the family without even knowing them. heartbreaking and very honest. it should be required viewing for anyone that finds themself or someone they know in this kind of situation.

August 5, 2009

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