Product Details

• Directors: TBC
• Producers: TBC
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: HBO
• DVD Release Date: August 4, 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002FU6F16
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,826 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The other storyline, August 14, 2009

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Manwiches (Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boy Interrupted (DVD)

After reading some of the other reviews I felt compelled to write my own. As I watched Boy Interrupted, I became very interested in the dynamics of the family and their family "Style" as The Perry home is not your typical household. The parents are artists and filmmakers and probably possess a very different dynamic than those people who are critical of the Perry's and the way they handled the very sad and tragic situation with their son Evan. To me the other storyline in this movie is about a family who is grieving in their own special way--through the making of this film. To some, this may seem narcissistic and insensitive to Evan's wishes, but I see it as completely in-sync with how they grieve.
At times, there are some questions left unanswered, and I believe that is the result of the subjectivity from the filmmakers telling their own story. I am completely fine with that, as this film cannot be anything other than subjective. If they waited to make this film two years from now, it would be a different movie, but still relevant and still subjective.
The Perry's have done a brave thing by telling their own story and opening themselves up to criticism.
Watch this film as not just a portrait of a boy with bi-polar disorder but also as a family in the process of grieving the best way they know how--through the telling of their story.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MY thoughts, August 18, 2009

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K. Skelton (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boy Interrupted (DVD)

I thought the movie was very good. living with bipolar and a son who has it, it shows the confusion and the thoughts that are there o lot of the time. It is easy to say oh you should have done this or that but the impulses of the illness are strong and you don't really realize how sick you are. I have been told that i get a different look about me and as my son gets a look and his anger is so strong...but so is the love when he is loving life.. i have survived suicide attempts in the past but i do believe the illness will possibly kill me or my son one day. while I know it hurts family and friends My wish is that these people can see that finally their loved one is not in such confusing turmoil and emotional pain anymore. God bless all the people that deal with this illness or any mental illness and their loved ones.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honest Look at Life, Death, and Grief, August 4, 2009

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Victor U. Urbina "WimpyGuyExtrordinaire" (El Paso, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boy Interrupted (DVD)

In my humblest opinion, documentaries should be the type of "movies" to get all the attention and accolades simply because there's no "heavy machinery" involved and no acting, whatsoever (most of the times). They show life the way it is--unscripted and "un-rehearsed".
At least this gem of a "movie" doesn't have any of that, yet it still delivers. Like all documentaries, it presents the life of young Evan Scott Perry, who tragically committed suicide at the tender age of 15.
As a way of coming to terms with the past and present, Evan's mother, Dana Perry, puts together a film tracking Evan's short life and how his untimely departure came to have its effect on the ones he left behind.
An honest look at a beautiful life tragically cut short, this is definitely one of the most powerful documentaries I have ever seen, and it doesn't take a movie critic to say that!!!
Not only rent or watch this film, but buy it.