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Forget Revolutionary Road, if you want to see a period piece about a Connecticut couple in crisis, check out this skeletons-in-the-closet documentary deconstructing the dysfunctional marriage of Allis and Charlie. The movie was made by Morgan Dews who decided to document his late grandparents’ miserable home life which was marked by spousal and child abuse, alcoholism, infidelity, insanity and tragedy.

Allis and Charlie’s neighbors in their upscale, suburban Hartford community probably had no idea what was going on behind their closed doors. And the only reason it’s coming to light now is that, after they both died, grandson Morgan discovered a suitcase up in the attic containing family photographs, 8mm home movies, candid audiotapes from sessions with shrinks and intimate audio journals entries from over the years.

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