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Time

  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • 1h 21m
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6.8/10
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Time (2020)
Entrepreneur Fox Rich spends the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 1990s in a moment of desperation.
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Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.

  • Director
    • Garrett Bradley
  • Stars
    • Sibil Fox Richardson
    • Robert G. Richardson
    • Mahlik Richardson
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    • Director
      • Garrett Bradley
    • Stars
      • Sibil Fox Richardson
      • Robert G. Richardson
      • Mahlik Richardson
    • 67User reviews
    • 80Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 28 wins & 51 nominations total

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    Sibil Fox Richardson
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    • (as Sibll Fox Richardson)
    Robert G. Richardson
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    Mahlik Richardson
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    Remington B. Richardson
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    Laurence Mathews Richardson
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    Reviewers say 'Time' delves into love, family, and incarceration, highlighting Sybil Fox Rich's fight to free her husband. The documentary is lauded for its artistic style and emotional resonance but criticized for its disjointed narrative and lack of depth. Opinions vary on its portrayal of the criminal justice system and its impact on families, with some finding it impactful and others deeming it shallow.
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    7ferguson-6

    a strong woman

    Greetings again from the darkness. "Our prison system is nothing more than slavery, and I'm an abolitionist." So states Fox Rich, a successful business woman, and the mother of six boys. Director Garrett Bradley brings us the story of this woman who devoted 20 years to the mission of getting her husband's prison sentence reduced. It was 1997, and the desperate Shreveport couple were arrested for armed bank robbery. Fox took the plea bargain, while husband Rob did not.

    Fox served less than 3 years for her involvement in the robbery, while a Louisiana judge sentenced Rob to 60 years (the maximum sentence was 99), with no allowance for parole. Fox was pregnant with twins when Rob was sentenced. She named the twins Freedom and Justus. Director Bradley expertly weaves clips from the home videos Fox recorded for Rob with 'in the moment' discussions and observations of her attempts to get someone in the system to hear the case.

    What we witness over the course of the film is a proud, strong, fierce woman who, as a single mother, raises 6 kids while she works - at her job and to get Rob released. Twice per month visits is all that she's allowed with Rob, which leads one of the sons to comment that hiding behind the strong family image is a lot of pain. Fox discusses how her mother taught her to believe in the American Dream, but desperate people do desperate things ... although we never get an explanation of just why Fox and Rob were so desperate to rob a bank. Fox's mother states, "Right don't come to you doing wrong", and then she turns around and compared incarceration to slavery.

    There are some mixed messages delivered here, which is understandable given how complicated life can get. Perhaps the most vivid message is the impact incarceration has on a family. Fox is an extraordinary woman devoted to raising her sons as strong and smart young men. But she also decries that her boys have never had a father and don't even know the role one plays. While Fox displays the ultimate in polite phone decorum despite her frustrations with an uncaring, inefficient system, we do see her sincerity as she stands in front of her church congregation asking for forgiveness of her poor choices.

    The film was highly acclaimed and talked about at Sundance 2020, and that's likely because it strikes hard at family emotions and societal issues. A prime example is the phone call between Fox and Rob just prior to his re-sentencing hearing. From a filmmaking perspective, the black and white images are terrific, and as previously stated, the home movies and "live" filming are expertly blended. On the downside, the sound mix is horrible at the beginning, and the music (beautiful piano playing) often overpowers the dialogue throughout. It's a film meant to create discussion amongst viewers, and it's sure to do so.
    6giacomo_101

    No middle ground.

    I almost lost hope in this documentary, but that hope was rectified with the final 15 beautiful minutes. However even though the documentary finished strong, as a whole it really failed to grip me!

    The overall backbone of the film, was for me the journey that the family experienced whilst growing up without a father. This journey for me was incomplete. As a viewer I wanted to know how the mother created her own narrative and was reborn from the ashes, completely rising up from the total desperation of before she was incarcerated. How the children were effected by this when they were small children to when they were adults. Not just raw footage of a baby and then current video of a graduation. The director showed us the beginning and the end, unfortunately I found no middle ground.
    8Sil-Azevedo

    A remarkable achievement

    It's remarkable how much director Garrett Bradley and her editors achieved with so little. Working on a micro budget and a mix of her footage and old video tapes, Bradley chose to unify it all in elegant black and white, while focusing on what truly matters: the story. And what a story it is-a deeply human tale of circumstances, choices, and consequences that stretch far beyond what most of us can imagine.

    Anchored by a powerful woman at its center, Fox Rich, the film catches you and never lets go. If you care about people, you will care about this family. Time is a scathing indictment of our racist economic and penitentiary systems. We can-and must-do better.
    4josephw-32691

    Weak, flimsy

    As far as documentaries go, this one is incredibly sparse and shallow. There's not a lot of factual information or real details in it, but there's a lot of cinematic moments that are clearly meant to pull on your heartstrings. I really hoped that instead of building up to emotional moments with their black and white mind blowing cinematography that they had focused on actually telling a better story. It's really not Oscar worthy material, no chance. It's as slow moving as molasses in January and a lot of repetitive close up shots that look like someone shot them on an iPhone pointed at themselves, a lot of insipid moments of waiting on hold or working out at the gym, and really, really boring scenes where almost nothing happens. Let's please raise the bar a little bit.
    5bravjake

    Missing Something

    This documentary is missing something. To me it seems empty. Had it not been for all of the recorded footage by Fox then there would have been no substance at all. I can agree that her husband was given too much time for the crime but....The documentary itself isn't deserving of the high rating others have given it.

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      Garett Bradley met Sibil Rich in 2016 while working on her short film Alone, a New York Times Op-Doc. She intended to make a short documentary about Rich, but when shooting wrapped, Rich gave Bradley a bag of mini-DV tapes containing some 100 hours of home videos she had recorded over the previous 18 years. At that point, Bradley transitioned the short into a feature.
    • Quotes

      Fox Rich: Listen, my story is the story of over two million people in the United States of America that are falling prey to the incarceration of poor people and people of color.

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    • Release date
      • October 16, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
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      • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Amazon Studios
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      • $574,361
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      • Dolby Digital
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      • 1.85 : 1

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