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Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father

  NR HD Closed Captioning

Kurt Kuenne

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Plot Summary

On November 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. John's, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he'd never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the U.S., the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, David & Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their son. What happened next, no one ever could have foreseen…

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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94%
  • Reviews Counted: 49
  • Fresh: 46
  • Rotten: 3
  • Average Rating: 8.1/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Fresh: It is impossible not to be fired up by Kurt Kuenne's incendiary cri de coeur, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. – Stephen Holden, New York Times, Nov 3, 2008

Fresh: The facts are so awful that Dear Zachary can be forgiven much of its antsiness -- as a memorial, as a condolence to Bagby's parents (who became activists for judicial reform in their late son's honor), and as a howl of grief. – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly, Jul 7, 2010

Fresh: What begins as a poignant tribute to filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's dead best friend snowballs into a gut-wrenching true-crime story. – Peter Debruge, Variety, Jul 7, 2010

Fresh: An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding. – Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, Jun 24, 2010

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Customer Reviews

The Best Documentary EVER

A beautifully told tragic story. One if the best films I've ever seen.

Really good

It is really sad but really good πŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’š

Amazing

Great movie, at the same time I can't recommend watching it, it will break your heart

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Released: 2008

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