
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
3.6
(838)
Documentary
2011
100 min
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Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.
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"Pointlessly long documentary with the few credible facts, evidence, and actual documentation they were able to provide for it. The rest was pointless filler and desperate speculation. The photos of her dead body at the end were completely unnecessary, I can't imagine how seeing that would affect the family members. At least they didn't show the children's dead bodies. Also, how have we as a society allowed alcohol and drug abuse to become so normalized that it's impossible to accept the monumental part it played in this tragedy? Despite everything else that led up to it or what might or might not have been going on inside her body or mind, she drank the equivalent of 10 drinks, smoked a large amount of weed, then drove a minivan of children into another vehicle going 70 mph in the wrong direction on the highway, killing almost everyone involved. That doesn't necessarily make her a bad person, but she obviously had a problem and was in desperate need of some type of intervention or outside help that may have prevented this tragedy. She was a very private person as was stated several times in the doc, she wouldn't talk about her childhood traumas or growing up without a mom (how were the documentary people not able to investigate this further, along with several other things, for the sake of a more thorough picture of her life?) I wouldn't be surprised to find out she was a closet alcoholic or had mental health problems that maybe led up to this. Whatever happened there's definitely more to this story, but this documentary will leave you with more questions than answers if you're searching for them. Most others will suffice to accept the fact that she was drunk and high and got behind the wheel, that was a terrible choice that changed many lives that day. "
"I thought, with a the hype, this was gonna rock my socks off, and leave me clinging for more. For answers, for solace, but no, none of that. Yes, this is a tragic story. But all I got from this doc was a family of enablers, who cannot claim responsibility. I was mostly bored and ****** anyone allowed to give this perspective an hour and 40 minutes of time. "
"This documentary was so sad and really stayed with me. Family was totally in denial."
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Maria Alvia