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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is a personal film that’s as uncomprom...

Directed By: Chico Colvard

Written By: Chico Colvard

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
  • 1 h 20 m

Family Affair

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is a personal film that’s as uncomprom...

Directed By: Chico Colvard

Written By: Chico Colvard

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
65
40% Positive
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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90
Nov 18, 2010
The filmmaking is rough and rather clumsy, but by ceding the floor to his open, highly articulate sisters, Mr. Colvard has created a fascinatingly raw study of ferociously wielded male power.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 20, 2010
Great as it is, this is not a ticket buying kind of movie.
By Tim Cogshell FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 17, 2010
While Colvard's film is always queasily watchable, as with other voyeuristic entertainments that insist on making the private public, there's the sense that such matters may be better dealt with in-house-or in a courtroom-than writ large on a movie screen.
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60
Nov 17, 2010
Far be it from us to deny the director his deserved catharsis or to dissuade someone from speaking out about abuse. Still, Family Affair feels less like a documentary than one man's filmed therapy marathon, to which you're voyeuristically privy in an oversharing-on-Oprah sort of way.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 19, 2010
Chico Colvard's tragic documentary is blunt and rather artless, but it does make for impactful, and deeply disturbing, viewing.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Nov 19, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.c-linefilms.com/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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