Brett Killed Mom: A Sister's Diary

HBO, 1996
PRIME-TIME EMMY® AWARD - NOMINEE

SYNOPSIS

Called “an extremely intimate documentary of an imploding family” by Time Out New York, Brett Killed Mom: A Sister’s Diary is the story of Alyssa Ryder’s quest to explain the long hidden abuse that drove her 14-year-old brother, a straight-A student and promising athlete, to murder their mother, exposing the dark secrets of a picture perfect life.

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New York Times
“...a searing portrait of the rage and pain lurking behind the facade of a seemingly all-American family overseen by a profoundly disturbed mother and an ineffectual father.” - John. J. O’Connor

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