When We Were Bullies
The past is a vulnerable place
A reflective documentary that excavates buried guilt and fractured memories of childhood cruelty, asking uncomfortable questions about complicity and the passage of time.
A mind-boggling "coincidence" leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class – and fifth grade teacher – to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident fifty years ago.
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
