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Titicut Follies

Don't turn your back on this film... if you value your mind or your life.

7.3(155)19671h 24m3

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.

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Released
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Language
English
  • insane asylum
  • psychiatric hospital
  • jail
  • mental patient
  • prison brutality
  • shocking
  • direct cinema
  • observational cinema
  • prison life
  • criminally insane
  • prisoner abuse
  • psychiatric treatment

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York Film Festival28 Sept 1967
    • TheatricalNRNew York City, New York3 Oct 1967
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical14 Nov 1993
    • TheatricalU9 Mar 1994
    • Digital / OTTarte.tv (Wiseman cycle), restoration15 Sept 2026

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Titicut Follies was released on 3 October 1967.

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