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America's Most Hated Family in Crisis (2011)

America's Most Hated Family in Crisis poster
Original title
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Directed by
Emma Cooper
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 60 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Louis Theroux returns to the Westboro Baptist Church to see how the family has changed in the years since his first visit. He talks with members about their ongoing protests and the struggles within their group.

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What happens

America's Most Hated Family in Crisis (also known as The Return of America's Most Hated Family in some markets) is a 2011 BBC documentary film presented and written by Louis Theroux, who revisits the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church. It is a follow-up to 2007's The Most Hated Family in America, also written and presented by Theroux. In 2019, Theroux made another follow-up, Surviving America's Most Hated Family, completing a trilogy of documentaries based on the church. The documentary first aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2011 at 9pm. It received mainly positive reviews from critics, with the Metro calling it "terrifying". The documentary had 3.33 million viewers and was BBC Two's most watched programme of that week. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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