America's Most Hated Family in Crisis (2011)

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

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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