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Don't let anyone tell you what it is.
Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on Facebook, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby's family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby's attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and his buddies embark on a road trip in search of the truth.
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The NBC show 'Community' spoiled the entire story in a sentence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2yYp2I1q9s (spoilers, obviously)
It's hard to imagine films not giving you 80% plot in their trailers but there was a time when movies like Catfish, The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, The Matrix, even Super8 to an extent were advertised based on their mystery. These were films that you didn't talk about until your friends had seen it. Sort of a pre-"spoiler culture" spoiler. Of course in 2010 while social media was around it was a different beast than it is today. If you're familiar with Catfishing, and it's 2020 now so it'd been about 10 years since this movie popularized the term so you probably are, then you can guess the outline of this movie. It might even seem ridiculous now to make a whole documentary-style film about it when it's now the storyline of b-lines in animated sitcoms or the backstory of a character in a reality show about love. But while [spoiler]misrepresenting yourself online[/spoiler] wasn't new in 2010. Catfish represented a sort of inflection point the basic understanding of how far someone would be willing to go both to engage with someone and to find out who they are, really. The movie was compelling at the time. Both in ways that probably hold up and in ways that would probably be offensive now. Which isn't to say the movie itself is offensive. It's always hard to remember the details that far back but the things you enjoyed about watching this salacious story aren't necessarily the things you would enjoy in a more modern setting.
finding out nev has a tramp stamp is the most traumatizing discovery i’ve ever encountered
Interesting Film. Brought light to a topic that a lot of people are unaware of. Manti Te'o should have watched it.
This documentary is dishonest; many scenes are definitely fabricated, and it abuses a poor, disturbed woman in the pursuit of making this film.