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Tell Them You Love Me (2024)

Tell Them You Love Me poster
Directed by
Nick August-Perna
Genre
documentary, crime
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary examines the case of a Rutgers professor convicted of sexually assaulting a nonverbal man with cerebral palsy. It looks at the relationship between them and the controversial communication method she used.

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What happens

Tell Them You Love Me is a documentary film that details the case against Anna Stubblefield, a Rutgers University professor convicted in 2015 of sexually abusing Derrick Johnson, a nonverbal person with cerebral palsy whom she was allegedly supporting through facilitated communication. After struggling to find a distributor in the United States, it was eventually released through Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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