Ended on 12/4/2008
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DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER -
(unrated)
2008 - USA - English - 95 minutes - MSNBC Films
Directed by: Kurt Kuenne
Featuring: Kurt Kuenne, Zachary Andrew, David Bagby, Dr. Andrew Bagby, Kathleen Bagby
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 On the evening of Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex- girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. Johns, Newfoundland -- where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for little Zachary to learn about his father -- until Shirley Turner, whom Canada allowed to walk free on bail while awaiting extradition to the United States, killed again.
"What begins as a poignant tribute to filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's dead best friend snowballs into a gut-wrenching true-crime story in DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER, a film that, like the twist-filled events it covers, isn't always what it appears to be. Though presented as a visual scrapbook for the victim's son Zachary, Kuenne initiated the project before learning Andrew Bagby's unstable ex-lover was pregnant with their unborn son when the murder was committed. By addressing the memorial to young Zachary, Kuenne lands on a human-interest hook that has made the pic the talk of Slamdance."
--Peter Debruge, Variety
"Has so many unexpected developments that it plays like a first-rate thriller. A series of shocking twists awaits anyone who invests attention...it will stay with viewers for a long time. It's hands down one of the most mind-blowing true-crime movies in recent memory, fiction or nonfiction."
--Martin Tsai, New York Sun
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