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Fraud

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • 52m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
129
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Fraud (2016)
A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences.
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Documentary

A struggling family commits fraud.A struggling family commits fraud.A struggling family commits fraud.

  • Director
    • Dean Fleischer Camp
  • Stars
    • Gary Arnold
    • Sahithi Dasari
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    129
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Dean Fleischer Camp
    • Stars
      • Gary Arnold
      • Sahithi Dasari
    • 13User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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    3Ken-208

    This is fabricated fiction, not really a documentary

    I feel like I was mislead to see this film. It is promoted as being a new style of documentary film, but in reality, it is a fictional story made by editing and distorting a family's home movies.

    There's nothing clever about lying and misleading the audience and making it sound like you are presenting a true story documentary film only to find out that after you've watched the film you were lied to. If the director wasn't there to tell you about some of the fictional elements you might think you watched a true story.

    I heard the director speak at a film festival and the first thing he said is "I just want to say that the family did not commit any crimes and we just made it look like they did".

    Basically, the director took a bunch of scenes from home movies. Put them out of order and distorted things out of context, put fake time stamps on the scenes to make it appear chronological. The time stamps have nothing to do with actual dates of when the film clips were made. The fake time stamps are merely there to help fake the fabricated fictional story that did not occur.

    There were also fabricated fictional elements, and fictional scenes created to help tell the fictional story. For example there is fake news story shown in the film. Also video clips were added that had nothing to do with the family. For example the director leads you to believe you are seeing the family's house burning down. The family lives in the United States. The house on fire is a film clip the director found of a Russian house on fire and the house has nothing to do with the family.

    The real fraud is that this movies is not a documentary film even though it described as being a documentary film.

    Most people find it boring to watch home movies of people you don't know. Perhaps to convince people to watch this movie, the director had to make up some fake fraud story and mislead people to believe it is a documentary film.

    This tactic isn't anything new or revolutionary. PT Barnum used to do that in circus side shows. Blair Witch project also created hype about a fiction found footage documentary. Reality Television shows do the same thing and distort things to create drama in shows that they claim are reality shows.

    We don't need false reality "documentaries". Film makers who mislead their audiences trying to get them to watch films that are not what they promoted are not respecting the time or interests of the audience.

    It would be like telling people they are going to see a romance movie and then giving them a gory slasher movie. People expect to see what they are lead to believe they are going to see and false advertising is not a good way to attract an audience. I wish I hadn't wasted my time watching this film. I was at a film festival and I missed seeing a good film because this film claimed to be a new form of documentary film making. It is not a documentary. It is fiction.
    8d-34743-58965

    Unhinged

    It is apparent Dean Fleischer-Camp never imagined in his wildest dreams what his tiny, innocuous art film would connect him to for all eternity.

    The father in the film Gary Arnold is on a mission.

    He has an expanding digital footprint from his ongoing paranormal investigations.

    Yes - he's an avid "ghost hunter", BUT quite unlike most in this genre - Gary's amassed hard data & enlisted some serious scientific sponsors to catapult his outrageous evidence directly into the consciousness of the American Heartland.

    There's also a sensational aspect to his experience that will likely ignite the public's imagination: Gary's winning some righteous cash using EVP messages collected from the ether...

    All compliments of beings who claim to be: "Alien" & "Otherworldly" !!!!!!

    With his network of prestigious & credentialed specialists and a Nobel prize nominee - Gary's poised to soon make a historic real life Disclosure of epic proportions that will reverberate globally:

    WE ARE Definitely NOT ALONE in the Universe !!!!

    Gary is confident he has the ironclad, incontrovertible forensic data to convincingly show it to all he world.

    Undoubtedly, one cannot over-estimate how this simple self-evident confirmation will cause a cascade of hemispheric changes in the intrinsic nature of our perception as to the true order of things in the Cosmos.

    So - Buckle Up / Fasten your seat beats...

    2025's about to get one helluva lot more CRAZY !!!!!!!
    10forrestandgrogu

    Revelations

    Here's something truly sensational:

    🌟Gary Arnold ➡ the enigmatic father in this fictional film is trailblazing 🔥 a historic multifaceted investigation that promises to deliver no less than an epic verdict about one of Life's Greatest Mysteries: 🔎

    ✨👻 👀 👽 👀 👻✨

    ✨Are We Alone in the Universe❓😮❓

    One is never more than a quick singer's waltz away... Just Google: WeAreNotAlone Gary Arnold to discover something that's the definition of Phenomenal ⚡ 😎 ⚡

    🌟Gary's also repeatedly winning BIG jackpots 💰💲💰 via the Pennsylvania lottery using EVP messages ⚡🔮⚡

    This IS 💯% legit & All Public Record too ❗❗😇❗❗

    Yep ➡ Undeniable Real World 🌎 Results ❗👊❗
    9marysavoy

    Showcases The Power of Editing

    Saw this film in London and the power of split-second editing is amazing. I may seem a bit reserved with my British characterizations, but the flavor of the family portrayed in the movie is uniquely American. This plot wouldn't seem as plausible with an English family. Nevertheless, I recommend people give Fraud a good watch whenever it goes to VOD.
    10garyleearnold

    The REEL Family

    As the patriarch of the actual family depicted in Dean Fleischer-Camp's subterranean séance, I sincerely hope everyone out of sheer curiosity gives FRAUD a good "look-see" to experience the cinematic magic...

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    • Release date
      • May 1, 2016 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Przekręt
    • Production companies
      • Memory
      • Rough House Pictures
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