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What does the weight of time₂s passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years₂ worth of Richardson₂s own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in this film a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family₂s extraordinary efforts to stay whole

Wide screen (1.89:1)

Special features: Audio commentaries; interviews; conversations; Alone (2017), a short documentary; essay by Doren St. Félix

Essay by Doren St. Félix has been removed

Sibil Fox Richardson

Blu-ray, wide screen (1.89:1); 5.1 DTS-HD MA; 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player

English dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video