Time
Overview
Documentarian Garrett Bradley charts the journey of entrepreneur and mother Sibil Fox Richardson in her quest to ease the prison sentence of her husband, Rob. Convicted for armed robbery, Rob must serve sixty years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary while Fox herself only received a three-year sentence for her involvement in the crime. Candid interviews and intimate videos reveal the family's private life as a woman strives to support her husband despite significant personal sacrifices.
Awards:
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 81
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 715515267519
- Genre: DOCUMENTARY
- Rating: PG13
- Release Date: January 2022
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"There is no comforting logic here, the film asserts, no handy way to make sense of a nation's ingrained racism, the disproportionate penalties for black defendants and the fallout on their communities." - 01/25/2020 Hollywood Reporter
"[T]he cumulative impact -- boiled down into an open-minded and deeply empathetic 81 minutes -- will almost certainly rewire how Americans think about the prison-industrial complex." - 02/04/2020 Variety
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his beautiful and haunting documentary reminds us that there’s a human being behind those prison identification numbers, someone who is loved and is missed." - 10/09/2020 RogerEbert.com
"With TIME, Garrett Bradley has taken a well-chosen and gorgeously organized sample of Rich’s video diaries and wedded them to recent footage, this time filmed by Bradley and a trio of cinematographers." - 10/09/2020 Rolling Stone
"Fox is a great documentary subject: impassioned, levelheaded in her determination, sometimes wryly funny. She has a politician’s poise and diplomacy, even when dealing with the roadblocks put in the way of her campaign for a reduced sentence." - 10/09/2020 A.V. Club
"Substantive and stunning, the documentary TIME delivers on the title’s promise of the monumental as well as the personal." - 10/08/2020 New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- "TIME is really about the resilience of long-lasting love." - 10/16/2020 Empire
"In TIME, Garrett Bradley’s emotionally overwhelming documentary, a Louisiana woman works tirelessly to free her spouse from a decades-long prison sentence." - 12/11/2020 Los Angeles Times
"The success of TIME speaks to the revelatory power of its twinned perspective: its combination of Fox’s video diaries with Bradley’s artfully shot vignettes of the Richardson family’s daily lives." - 12/11/2020 Sight and Sound
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