Close to Home (VHS)

Close to Home (VHS)	Email This Page
Filmmaker: Alexandra Dickson and Vanessa Roth	As Seen On: Sundance Film Festival

VHS - $ 95.00
Price includes Public Performance License.
It is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sex abuse crimes in the United States and that 90 percent of the abusers are people children know, love or trust. Close to Home takes an unprecedented look at this crime and the complexities surrounding its disclosure when the offenders are trusted community members. Weaving together intimate interviews of abuse victims and videotaped forensic testimony, Close to Home contrasts five personal accounts of child sex abuse with the chilling statements of convicted sex offenders. Close to Home was produced by the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children, Established in 1997 by former U.S. Olympian and baseball player Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals). Click here to go to the homepage of the Discovery Health Channel version. Click here for more information about the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children. Running time: 79 min., Year released: 2001 Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS ISBN: 1-55974-650-5 Language: English, Subtitled?: N For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N Grade level: 10th and up Reviews: "A wrenching film, as important as it is difficult to watch, that deals with the devastation of childhood sexual abuse. The documentary consists of interviews with adult survivors of abuse, children who are just now confronting their experience and, most chilling, convicted offenders talking about their strategies in group therapy sessions. As one of them explains, 'The predator isn't the guy in the bushes, picking up kids in the schoolyard. Most child molesters are people in your lives.'" --Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times "This film is powerful and, at times, overwhelming. My gratitude and admiration go out to the brave survivors who chose to participate in our film. Their honesty and forthrightness will help spread the message that child sexual abuse must stop and we all must do our part to make this topic no longer taboo." --Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals Other Credits: Produced and Directed by Vanessa Roth and Alexandra Dickson Music Score Composed by Peter Harris "Dreamland" written, produced and performed by Bruce Hornsby Produced by the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children and Big Year Productions, Inc.

This title can also be found in: Biographies, Crimes & Criminals, Family Issues, Health, Laws and Legal Issues, Medical Issues, Medicine & Medical Professionals, Parenting, Psychology, Teens, U.S. Government, Young Adult