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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

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Average Rating: 9.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0

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Throughout his work, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has sought out characters lost in their own eccentric worlds, and he has managed to convey their sense of wonder with their passion, be it a topiary gardener arguing the merits of hand shears in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) or astrophysicist Stephen Hawking discussing the origin of the universe in A Brief History of Time (1992). In his most provocative work since The Thin Blue Line (1988), Morris details what happens when this

PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.

Documentary, Drama, Special Interest

Jun 6, 2000

Lions Gate Releasing

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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)

Morris, com sua habilidade narrativa habitual, conta a interessante mas incômoda história de um homem destruído pela própria ignorância.

January 30, 2007 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Fascinating stuff.

October 13, 2003 Comment

Despite its morbid subject, this documentary is far funnier than one would expect.

September 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Gurus | Comment

As Errol Morris shows us how this strange little man got into the execution business and Holocaust denial, we should ask ourselves: Did we create 'Mr. Death'? Is he us?

April 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Offoffoff | Comment
Offoffoff

Unsettling documentary is a gripping study of the banality of evil.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Interesting study of Fred Leuchter's underwhelming career, poor judgement and antisemitic reasoning.

January 18, 2009
flixsterman
Randy Tippy

Super Reviewer

"Mr. Death" is an Errol Morris documentary about Fred Leuchter. Mr. Leuchter is an engineer by trade who specialized in building and repairing capital punishment devices(gallows, gas chamber, lethal injection, electric chair, etc) for various states. He is a proponent of the death penalty. What he is seeking to do

July 19, 2005
Harlequin68
Walter M.

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