Summary
Phyllis and Harold is a frank journey through a disastrous 59 year old marriage. Drawing on a lifetime of her family's home movies and interviews made over 12 years, filmmaker Cindy Kleine mixes reportage, cinema verite and animation to uncover family secrets and tell a story that could not be shown publicly as long as her father was alive.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+7)
Critics 59Audiences 66GoodWatch 54
Tomatometer70%
Metascore47
Audience score67%
IMDb6.4
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −11 min on the typical 96
typical 9685Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
To rent or buy in 2 countries
Released
2010
February 19, 2010
16 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryRomanceLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Cindy Kleine Director
Editing · 1
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editor
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