Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer (2010)

Directed by

Jim Dirschberger

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the corruption scandal that ruined a Pennsylvania state treasurer and ended in his public suicide. It combines new interviews with family and colleagues to tell his story.

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What happens

Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer is a 2010 American documentary film by James Dirschberger that chronicles the Computer Technology Associates (CTA) scandal which led to the public suicide of R. Budd Dwyer, the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in 1987. The documentary features new interviews with Dwyer's family, friends, and colleagues. These interviews include Dwyer's widow Joanne (her last before her death in 2009) and William Trickett Smith. The film premiered on October 9, 2010 at the Carmel Art & Film Festival in Carmel, California, where it received positive reviews. In November 2010, the film premiered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the location of Dwyer's death, where it ran for one week at the Midtown Cinema. The director and the Dwyer family attended the screening and participated in a Q&A with the audience. In addition to further screenings around the country, the film was released on DVD on December 7, 2010. That same month it was broadcast on the Pennsylvania Cable Network. The film premiered on Amazon Video in December 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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