This investigative documentary traces the painful appeal of a Michigan man, Melvin Matthews, who served 10 years in prison for supposedly abusing his son. As the film unfolds, we learn that his wife was shattered to discover that, after divorcing her, he came out as a homosexual. The resulting battle challenges standard notions of homophobia and confronts the issue of parents using children as a weapon to harm each other.
AS forceful as the docu is in presenting the facts, some disturbing questions linger: was the boy (who's now 15) indoctrinated or brainwashed by his mother? How did he live with that knowledge and lack of communication with father's family for a decade?
[Illustrates] some valuable points about how a personal prejudice can spill over into harmful, seamlessly delusional behavior, and how the high emotions inextricably entwined with a subject like child abuse can prove ultimately self-defeating.
Sheds light on some limitations in our legal system and how a little prejudice can go a long way. You get the sense of helplessness and frustration the Matthew's lived with...a compelling documentary.
An eye-opening look at the possibility of an accused pedophile's innocence ... it is a compelling caution against quick judgements made without benefit of all the facts
The story of Melvin and Stephen Matthews is one that deserved to be told. Unfortunately, the manner of its telling by writer-director Nonny de la Pena is almost as inadequate as the US justice system the two men confronted.
The finest element in de la Pena's carefully assembled account is how she doesn't simply state the obvious, but lets the meaty facts speak for themselves.
An uninventive but harrowing report from the front lines of a society whose attitudes toward homosexuality are changing faster than some might like -- but not quite fast enough to really make it count for others.
If That woman is who she claims to be then she should file herself ??? What I got out of this docudrama is No one ever rilly knows what crimes have been commited against a child ... weather he was molested or not tears where shed.. And This is the Blurr between The facts is ADULTS convince kids who arent molested that
they are... and kids that are molested that they arent Its sick!
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