Raised by (reservoir) dogs

The Wolfpack

Crit

A stranger-than-fiction documentary about six brothers whose Peruvian-immigrant father would not let them out into their Lower East Side neighborhood (their midwestern mother homeschooled them) but provided them experience of a sort, bringing home hundreds of VHS tapes, the movies on which became the boys' lives. Inside their apartment prison, they act out scenes from their favorite films, recording their own versions.

Darker abuse is hinted at, against mother and boys, but somehow they have survived, even thrived in some respects. One by one they seized their freedom, though all still lag, understandably, in socialization skills. When last we see them, they are making their own original movie, about a man who sees the world in all its joy and pain pass by his window. And for what it's worth, even their father accepts a role in their film.