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- 2015
- Unrated
- Rocky Mountain Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Rocky Mountain Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
Summary An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.
Written By: Lorien Haynes
- 2015
- Unrated
- Rocky Mountain Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Rocky Mountain Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
An Open Secret
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Summary An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.
Written By: Lorien Haynes
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
66
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Meticulously crafted and investigated (and no doubt heavily vetted by lawyers), Berg brings a sobering solemnity to a very grave matter, but also lends a dignity to its subjects without pandering.
An Open Secret is an incisive and utterly unflinching look at a subject too rarely scrutinized.
Clunky elements aside, the film's distillation of firsthand testimony and archival material has haunting implications.
An Open Secret is affecting, particularly when the victims recount their experiences in voices that crack with emotion or pause with pain. Even if you do look away, hearing them speak is enough.
The amazing invincibility of Hollywood-entrenched pedophiles creates a thematic unity of its own in Berg’s otherwise somewhat shakily constructed film.
Berg might have proven that there's a circle of powerful creeps, but not that the blame for this goes straight to the top.
The open secret in Amy Berg’s documentary An Open Secret is that child actors are regularly molested by the adults — managers, publicists, producers — who help them launch their careers. Such an important subject deserves a serious, thoughtful film. Instead, it got Berg (Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis), who’s prone to all manner of cheesy manipulation.
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Production Company
Disarming Films,
Esponda Productions
Release Date Jun 5, 2015
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline The Film Hollywood Doesn't Want You to See
Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination