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- 2023
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- 2023
- Hulu
Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Zach Heinzerling features personal footage and interviews with the Sarah Lawrence College students who became victims of Larry Ray's cult that spanned over a decade before he was arrested.
- 2023
- Hulu
- 2023
- Hulu
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 9, 2023
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Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Zach Heinzerling features personal footage and interviews with the Sarah Lawrence College students who became victims of Larry Ray's cult that spanned over a decade before he was arrested.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
83
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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A remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre’s slow but steady reorientation toward centering survivors. ... Still, I can’t help feeling a lingering discomfort about “Stolen Youth” and its rather harrowing depictions of Ray’s violence.
With a startling rawness and directness, Heinzerling’s work makes a case for itself as an unusually sensitive and strong outing in its genre.
This is an admittedly tough watch, heartbreakingly so at time[s]. ... It’s also a journalistically sound effort, and thanks in large part to the victims who bravely agreed to extensive interviews, it could be of great help to others who find themselves or loved ones in similar situations.
Luckily for the producers, Larry Ray recorded many of those sessions, resulting in a three-part show that’s at times uncomfortably raw, and thus (for those who can stomach it) extremely watchable.
Stolen Youth isn’t just an informative look at a shocking case. It’s a well-made docuseries that’s always respectful to these survivors.
"Stolen Youth" gets tricky—and absorbing and salutary—and becomes something other than the regurgitation of the sordid, sensational and expansively scandalous. At a time when playing the victim is au courant, what distinguishes the interviews with Ray's targets is their chagrin, shame and wonderment, even now.
Documentaries about cults are never breezy affairs, but Stolen Youth is a particularly tough watch. ... What keeps Stolen Youth from being unbearably grim is its final hour, "Larryland," which follows Isabella Pollack, and Felicia and Yalitza in the aftermath of Ray's 2020 arrest.
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Production Company:
- Ex Lion Tamer
- Hulu
- Story Syndicate
Initial Release Date: Feb 9, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination
Television Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination